From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-bk0-f45.google.com (mail-bk0-f45.google.com [209.85.214.45]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C00696B00E0 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 17:36:18 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-bk0-f45.google.com with SMTP id mz13so1233885bkb.4 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 14:36:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from one.firstfloor.org (one.firstfloor.org. [193.170.194.197]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id xx2si3882052bkb.121.2014.02.21.14.36.16 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 21 Feb 2014 14:36:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 23:36:16 +0100 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] hugetlb: add hugepages_node= command-line option Message-ID: <20140221223616.GG22728@two.firstfloor.org> References: <20140218123013.GA20609@amt.cnet> <20140220022254.GA25898@amt.cnet> <20140220213407.GA11048@amt.cnet> <20140221022800.GA30230@amt.cnet> <20140221191055.GD19955@amt.cnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: David Rientjes Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , Luiz Capitulino , 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 > > 2) it improves the kernel command line interface from incomplete > > (lacking the ability to specify node<->page correlation), to > > a complete interface. > > > > If GB hugepages can be allocated dynamically, I really think we should be > able to remove hugepagesz= entirely for x86 after a few years of > supporting it for backwards compatibility, even though Linus has insisted That doesn't make any sense. Why break a perfectly fine interface? -Andi -- 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