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From: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	davidlohr@hp.com, isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com,
	yinghai@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] hugetlb: add hugepages_node= command-line option
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 22:35:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140220223551.4a9644ba@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1402201502580.30647@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:15:46 -0800 (PST)
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:

> Do I really need to do your work for you and work on 1GB hugepages at 
> runtime, which many more people would be interested in?  Or are we just 
> seeking the easiest way out here with something that shuts the customer up 
> and leaves a kernel command line option that we'll need to maintain to 
> avoid breaking backwards compatibility in the future?

We're seeking a pragmatic solution.

I've said many times in this thread that we're also interested on being
able to allocate 1GB at runtime and would work on it on top of the
command-line option, which is ready, works and solves a real world problem.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-21  3:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-14  1:02 [PATCH v2 0/4] hugetlb: add hugepages_node= command-line option Luiz Capitulino
2014-02-14  1:02 ` [PATCH 1/4] memblock: memblock_virt_alloc_internal(): add __GFP_THISNODE flag support Luiz Capitulino
2014-02-14  1:02 ` [PATCH 2/4] memblock: add memblock_virt_alloc_nid_nopanic() Luiz Capitulino
2014-02-14  1:02 ` [PATCH 3/4] hugetlb: add parse_pagesize_str() Luiz Capitulino
2014-02-14  1:02 ` [PATCH 4/4] hugetlb: add hugepages_node= command-line option Luiz Capitulino
2014-02-14 23:14   ` David Rientjes
2014-02-15  3:58     ` Luiz Capitulino
2014-02-15 10:06       ` David Rientjes
2014-02-17 13:56         ` Luiz Capitulino
2014-02-17 23:23           ` David Rientjes
2014-02-18 12:30             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2014-02-18 22:16               ` David Rientjes
2014-02-20  2:22                 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2014-02-20  3:46                   ` David Rientjes
2014-02-20  4:42                     ` Luiz Capitulino
2014-02-20  4:51                       ` David Rientjes
2014-02-20 15:06                         ` Luiz Capitulino
2014-02-20 21:34                     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2014-02-20 23:15                       ` David Rientjes
2014-02-21  2:28                         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2014-02-21 10:07                           ` David Rientjes
2014-02-21 19:10                             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2014-02-21 22:04                               ` David Rientjes
2014-02-21 22:36                                 ` Andi Kleen
2014-02-21 22:44                                   ` David Rientjes
2014-02-21 22:55                                     ` Andi Kleen
2014-02-21  3:35                         ` Luiz Capitulino [this message]
2014-02-20 21:38                     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2014-02-20 23:17                       ` David Rientjes
2014-02-18  5:47         ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-02-21 23:54           ` Andrew Morton
2014-02-22  4:03             ` Andi Kleen
2014-02-22  4:31               ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-02-22  4:40               ` Andrew Morton

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