slow boot with 7fef431be9c9 ("mm/page_alloc: place pages to tail in __free_pages_core()")
Mike Rapoport
rppt at linux.ibm.com
Sat Mar 13 13:48:11 UTC 2021
Hi,
On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 10:05:23AM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > Am 13.03.2021 um 05:04 schrieb Liang, Liang (Leo) <Liang.Liang at amd.com>:
> >
> > Hi David,
> >
> > Which benchmark tool you prefer? Memtest86+ or else?
>
> Hi Leo,
>
> I think you want something that runs under Linux natively.
>
> I‘m planning on coding up a kernel module to walk all 4MB pages in the
> freelists and perform a stream benchmark individually. Then we might be
> able to identify the problematic range - if there is a problematic range :)
My wild guess would be that the pages that are now at the head of free
lists have wrong caching enabled. Might be worth checking in your test
module.
> Guess I‘ll have it running by Monday and let you know.
>
> Cheers!
--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
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