From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wi0-f170.google.com (mail-wi0-f170.google.com [209.85.212.170]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 460E36B00AF for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 22:36:16 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-wi0-f170.google.com with SMTP id hi5so447836wib.3 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:36:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com. [209.132.183.28]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id w3si1580293wij.4.2014.02.20.19.36.13 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:36:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 22:35:51 -0500 From: Luiz Capitulino Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] hugetlb: add hugepages_node= command-line option Message-ID: <20140220223551.4a9644ba@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: References: <1392339728-13487-5-git-send-email-lcapitulino@redhat.com> <20140214225810.57e854cb@redhat.com> <20140217085622.39b39cac@redhat.com> <20140218123013.GA20609@amt.cnet> <20140220022254.GA25898@amt.cnet> <20140220213407.GA11048@amt.cnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: David Rientjes Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , Andrew Morton , Mel Gorman , Andrea Arcangeli , Andi Kleen , Rik van Riel , davidlohr@hp.com, isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com, yinghai@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:15:46 -0800 (PST) David Rientjes 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. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org