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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH QEMU] transparent hugepage support
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:17:05 +0000
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To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

> > No particular preference. Or you could have .../page_sizes list all
> > available sizes, and have qemu take the first one (or last depending on
> > sort order).
> 
> That would also work. Considering that the current transparent
> hugepage support won't support any more than 1 page, I think it's ok
> to call it hpage_size, the fact that amd/intel will add a 64k page
> size is purely hypothetical

It's only hypothetical on x86. Many other architectures already support this 
(at least ARM, MIPS, IA64, SPARC).

Paul