From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH Linux 2.6.31] Add hugepage support to the
	balloon driver
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:56:13 -0700
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On 10/28/09 08:44, Dave McCracken wrote:
> This patch adds a boot command line switch "balloon_hugepages" that makes the 
> balloon driver work entirely in hugepages.
>
> This version of the code checks to make sure each page is contiguous at the 
> machine level.  If it is not, it frees each page individually.  When the huge 
> page is reallocated it will be contiguous.
>
> Dave McCracken
>   

Looks reasonable.  Does this depend on any other changes to support
hugepages?

Is "Dave McCracken <dcm@mccr.org>" the address you want to sign this off
with, or an Oracle address?

    J