Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] contigous big page allocator

[Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>]

KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> writes:

>> >   My intention is not for allocating HUGEPAGE(> MAX_ORDER).
>> 
>> I still believe using this for 1GB pages would be one of the more
>> interesting use cases.
>> 
>
> I'm successfully allocating 1GB of continous pages at test. But I'm not sure
> requirements and users. How quick this allocation should be ?

This will always be slow. Huge pages are always pre allocated
even today through a sysctl. The use case would be have

echo XXX > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages 

at runtime working for 1GB too, instead of requiring a reboot
for this. 

I think it's ok if that is somewhat slow, as long as it is not
incredible slow. Ideally it shouldn't cause a swap storm either 

(maybe we need some way to indicate how hard the freeing code should
try?)

I guess it would only really work well if you predefine
movable zones at boot time.

-Andi

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