Commit ea458eff authored Nov 04, 2019 by Alastair D'Silva Committed by Michael Ellerman Nov 07, 2019

powerpc: Don't flush caches when adding memory



This operation takes a significant amount of time when hotplugging
large amounts of memory (~50 seconds with 890GB of persistent memory).

This was orignally in commit fb5924fd
("powerpc/mm: Flush cache on memory hot(un)plug") to support memtrace,
but the flush on add is not needed as it is flushed on remove.

Signed-off-by: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@d-silva.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191104023305.9581-7-alastair@au1.ibm.com

parent 07626590

arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c

+0 −2

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		@@ -142,8 +142,6 @@ int __ref arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size,
		return -EFAULT;
		}

		flush_dcache_range_chunked(start, start + size, FLUSH_CHUNK_SIZE);

		return __add_pages(nid, start_pfn, nr_pages, restrictions);
		}

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