We've noticed that on large SGI UV system configurations,
running microcode.ctl can take very long periods of time. This
is due to the large number of vmalloc/vfree calls made by the
Intel generic_load_microcode() logic.
By reusing allocated space, the following patch reduces the time
to run microcode.ctl on a 1024 cpu system from approximately 80
seconds down to 1 or 2 seconds.
Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100305174203.GA19638@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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