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@@ -636,3 +636,21 @@ config MAX_STACK_SIZE_MB
changed to a smaller value in which case that is used.
A sane initial value is 80 MB.
+
+# For architectures that support deferred memory initialisation
+config ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
+ bool
+
+config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
+ bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kswapd"
+ default n
+ depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
+ depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
+ help
+ Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a
+ single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable
+ amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up
+ a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel
+ when kswapd starts. This has a potential performance impact on
+ processes running early in the lifetime of the systemm until kswapd
+ finishes the initialisation.