Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Feb 2014 15:13:54 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] hugetlb: add hugepagesnid= command-line option |
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On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:27:44 -0500 Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> wrote:
> HugeTLB command-line option hugepages= allows the user to specify how many > huge pages should be allocated at boot. On NUMA systems, this argument > automatically distributes huge pages allocation among nodes, which can > be undesirable.
Grumble. "can be undesirable" is the entire reason for the entire patchset. We need far, far more detail than can be conveyed in three words, please!
> The hugepagesnid= option introduced by this commit allows the user > to specify which NUMA nodes should be used to allocate boot-time HugeTLB > pages. For example, hugepagesnid=0,2,2G will allocate two 2G huge pages > from node 0 only. More details on patch 3/4 and patch 4/4. >
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