x86: mm: Use 2GB memory block size on large-memory x86-64 systems

On large-memory x86-64 systems of 64GB or more with memory hot-plug
enabled, use a 2GB memory block size. Eg with 64GB memory, this reduces
the number of directories in /sys/devices/system/memory from 512 to 32,
making it more manageable, and reducing the creation time accordingly.

This caveat is that the memory can't be offlined (for hotplug or
otherwise) with the finer default 128MB granularity, but this is
unimportant due to the high memory densities generally used with such
large-memory systems, where eg a single DIMM is the order of 16GB.

Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale.com>
Cc: Steffen Persvold <sp@numascale.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415089784-28779-4-git-send-email-daniel@numascale.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
index 4cb8763868fc20add0018a26df9752f1cd03937d..ebca30f107088046bac25a48e080a491fe445cf5 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@
 #include <asm/numa.h>
 #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
 #include <asm/init.h>
-#include <asm/uv/uv.h>
 #include <asm/setup.h>
 
 #include "mm_internal.h"
@@ -1247,12 +1246,10 @@ static unsigned long probe_memory_block_size(void)
        /* start from 2g */
        unsigned long bz = 1UL<<31;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_UV
-       if (is_uv_system()) {
-               printk(KERN_INFO "UV: memory block size 2GB\n");
+       if (totalram_pages >= (64ULL << (30 - PAGE_SHIFT))) {
+               pr_info("Using 2GB memory block size for large-memory system\n");
                return 2UL * 1024 * 1024 * 1024;
        }
-#endif
 
        /* less than 64g installed */
        if ((max_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT) < (16UL << 32))