From: "Toralf Förster" <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: why does "mem auto-init: clearing system memory may take some time..." takes about 14 sec under 5.4.17 but only few msec under 5.5.1?
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2020 18:52:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c7a23250-6b23-2a9e-88c8-924c34fb9139@gmx.de> (raw)
I do wonder (and I'm surprised) about increased boot speed according to dmesg for thi9s hardend Gentoo Linux system:
Linux mr-fox 5.5.1 #1 SMP Sat Feb 1 18:25:21 CET 2020 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1650 v3 @ 3.50GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
Under 5.4.17 I do have usually 14 sec to wait:
[ 0.497171] mem auto-init: stack:byref_all, heap alloc:on, heap free:on
[ 0.497171] mem auto-init: clearing system memory may take some time...
[ 0.501549] Calgary: detecting Calgary via BIOS EBDA area
[ 0.501550] Calgary: Unable to locate Rio Grande table in EBDA - bailing!
[ 14.083235] Memory: 131812972K/134101088K available (12291K kernel code, 1400K rwdata, 1912K rodata, 1272K init, 2040K bss, 2288116K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
[ 14.083342] SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=12, Nodes=1
[ 14.083350] Kernel/User page tables isolation: enabled
[ 14.083403] rcu: Hierarchical RCU implementation.
[ 14.083404] rcu: RCU calculated value of scheduler-enlistment delay is 25 jiffies.
[ 14.083414] NR_IRQS: 4352, nr_irqs: 928, preallocated irqs: 16
but with 5.5.1 there's no wait?:
[ 0.000000] mem auto-init: stack:byref_all, heap alloc:on, heap free:on
[ 0.000000] mem auto-init: clearing system memory may take some time...
[ 0.000000] Memory: 131812876K/134101088K available (12291K kernel code, 1412K rwdata, 1936K rodata, 1260K init, 2012K bss, 2288212K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
[ 0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=12, Nodes=1
[ 0.000000] Kernel/User page tables isolation: enabled
[ 0.000000] rcu: Hierarchical RCU implementation.
[ 0.000000] rcu: RCU calculated value of scheduler-enlistment delay is 25 jiffies.
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS: 4352, nr_irqs: 928, preallocated irqs: 16
[ 0.000000] random: get_random_bytes called from start_kernel+0x4a8/0x659 with crng_init=0
Do I miss something? (The kernel config was derived via "make oldconfig").
--
Toralf
next reply other threads:[~2020-02-01 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-01 17:52 Toralf Förster [this message]
2020-03-30 2:55 ` why does "mem auto-init: clearing system memory may take some time..." takes about 14 sec under 5.4.17 but only few msec under 5.5.1? Randy Dunlap
2020-03-30 7:12 ` Toralf Förster
2020-03-30 9:12 ` Toralf Förster
2020-04-03 1:33 ` Randy Dunlap
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