From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Chen, Kenneth W" Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:47:53 +0000 Subject: RE: [PATCH 0/1] ia64: numa emulation Message-Id: <200510202148.j9KLmBg26310@unix-os.sc.intel.com> List-Id: References: <1129840588.6182.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1129840588.6182.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Lee Schermerhorn wrote on Thursday, October 20, 2005 1:59 PM > > > Back around 2.6.10, I recall seeing discussion of dynamically > > > sizing hugetlbfs based on max order. I haven't tracked this > > > to see if it went in. But, if it did, one could reenable > > > hugetlbfs and adapted to the reduced max order automatically. > > > > I have a patch does better than that. We can change the hugetlb > > page size at run time. I will clean up my patch and post it. > > > > Cool. Sounds like a generic [!just ia64] patch, right? Well, the patch is ia64 only since x86 and x86_64 doesn't offer multiple page size for hugetlb page. In any case, this probably should be arch specific, since it uses arch specific API to find out supported page size. - Ken