From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <46EEC24C.7000703@cray.com> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:07:08 -0500 From: Andrew Hastings MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] [hugetlb] Dynamic huge page pool resizing References: <20070917163935.32557.50840.stgit@kernel> In-Reply-To: <20070917163935.32557.50840.stgit@kernel> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Adam Litke Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, libhugetlbfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-ID: Adam Litke wrote: > The obvious answer is to let the hugetlb pool grow and shrink in response to > the runtime demand for huge pages. The work Mel Gorman has been doing to > establish a memory zone for movable memory allocations makes dynamically > resizing the hugetlb pool reliable within the limits of that zone. This patch > series implements dynamic pool resizing for private and shared mappings while > being careful to maintain existing semantics. Please reply with your comments > and feedback; even just to say whether it would be a useful feature to you. Thanks, this will be extremely useful for our customers' workloads. -Andrew Hastings Cray Inc. -- 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