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From: Andrew Hastings <abh@cray.com>
To: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, libhugetlbfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] [hugetlb] Dynamic huge page pool resizing
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:07:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46EEC24C.7000703@cray.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070917163935.32557.50840.stgit@kernel>

Adam Litke wrote:
> The obvious answer is to let the hugetlb pool grow and shrink in response to
> the runtime demand for huge pages.  The work Mel Gorman has been doing to
> establish a memory zone for movable memory allocations makes dynamically
> resizing the hugetlb pool reliable within the limits of that zone.  This patch
> series implements dynamic pool resizing for private and shared mappings while
> being careful to maintain existing semantics.  Please reply with your comments
> and feedback; even just to say whether it would be a useful feature to you.

Thanks, this will be extremely useful for our customers' workloads.

-Andrew Hastings
  Cray Inc.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-17 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-17 16:39 [PATCH 0/4] [hugetlb] Dynamic huge page pool resizing Adam Litke
2007-09-17 16:39 ` [PATCH 1/4] hugetlb: Move update_and_free_page Adam Litke
2007-09-17 16:39 ` [PATCH 2/4] hugetlb: Try to grow hugetlb pool for MAP_PRIVATE mappings Adam Litke
2007-09-17 16:40 ` [PATCH 3/4] hugetlb: Try to grow hugetlb pool for MAP_SHARED mappings Adam Litke
2007-09-17 17:22   ` Mika Penttilä
2007-09-17 17:42     ` Adam Litke
2007-09-17 18:42       ` Mika Penttilä
2007-09-17 20:07         ` Adam Litke
2007-09-17 16:40 ` [PATCH 4/4] hugetlb: Add hugetlb_dynamic_pool sysctl Adam Litke
2007-09-17 17:37 ` [PATCH 0/4] [hugetlb] Dynamic huge page pool resizing Dave McCracken
2007-09-17 18:07 ` Andrew Hastings [this message]
2007-09-21  5:16 ` Avi Kivity
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-09-24 15:46 Adam Litke
2007-09-25 11:22 ` Balbir Singh
2007-09-25 15:30   ` Adam Litke
2007-09-25 15:47     ` Balbir Singh

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