Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Feb 2014 20:51:55 -0800 (PST) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/4] hugetlb: add hugepages_node= command-line option |
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On Wed, 19 Feb 2014, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> > Yes, my concrete objection is that the command line interface is > > unnecessary if you can dynamically allocate and free 1GB pages at runtime > > unless memory will be so fragmented that it cannot be done when userspace > > is brought up. That is not your use case, thus this support is not > > Yes it is. The early boot is the most reliable moment to allocate huge pages > and we want to take advantage from that. >
Your use case is 8GB of hugepages on a 32GB machine. It shouldn't be necessary to do that at boot.
Thanks.
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