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From: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] EAL: count nr_overcommit_hugepages as
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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 13:52:15 +0000
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On 25-Feb-19 8:57 PM, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> From: Michał Mirosław <michal.miroslaw@atendesoftware.pl>
> 
> With nr_overcommit_hugepages > 0 application may be able to allocate
> hugepages even when free_hugepages == 0. Take this into account when
> counting available hugepages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <michal.miroslaw@atendesoftware.pl>
> ---

Surplus pages go back at least as far as 2009, and as far as i can tell, 
the patch works under any conditions i thought to throw at it, and 
doesn't break anything else. So...

Reviewed-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>

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Thanks,
Anatoly