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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/4] hugetlbfs: optionally reserve all fs pages at mount time
On 03/03/2015 09:49 PM, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Mar 2015, Mike Kravetz wrote:
>> Add a new hugetlbfs mount option 'reserved' to specify that the number
>> of pages associated with the size of the filesystem will be reserved. If
>> there are insufficient pages, the mount will fail. The reservation is
>> maintained for the duration of the filesystem so that as pages are
>> allocated and free'ed a sufficient number of pages remains reserved.
>>
>
> This functionality is somewhat limited because it's not possible to
> reserve a subset of the size for a single mount point, it's either all or
> nothing. It shouldn't be too difficult to just add a reserved=<value>
> option where <value> is <= size. If it's done that way, you should be
> able to omit size= entirely for unlimited hugepages but always ensure that
> a low watermark of hugepages are reserved for the database.

Thanks, I like that suggestion. You are correct in that it should not
be too difficult to pass in a size for reserved. I'll work on the
modification.

--
Mike Kravetz


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