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Commit b5318d30 authored by Andres Salomon's avatar Andres Salomon Committed by H. Peter Anvin
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x86, olpc: Speed up device tree creation during boot



Calling alloc_bootmem() for tiny chunks of memory over and over is really
slow; on an XO-1, it caused the time between when the kernel started
booting and when the display came alive (post-lxfb probe) to increase
to 44s.  This patch optimizes the prom_early_alloc function by
calling alloc_bootmem for 4k-sized blocks of memory, and handing out
chunks of that to callers.  With this patch, the time between kernel load
and display initialization decreased to 23s.  If there's a better way to
do this early in the boot process, please let me know.

(Note: increasing the chunk size to 16k didn't noticably affect boot time,
and wasted 9k.)

v4: clarify comment, requested by hpa
v3: fix wasted memory buglet found by Milton Miller, and style fix.
v2: reorder prom_early_alloc as suggested by Grant.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
LKML-Reference: <20101129153951.74202a84@queued.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
parent c10d1e26
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