On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 15:40, Guido Trotter <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:35 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> From: Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho <[email protected]>
>>
>> Using transparent hugepages, KVM instances can get a good performance boost.
>> To activate that, we need to pass the -mem-path argument to KVM along with
>> the mount point of the hugetlbfs file system on the node.
>>
>> For the sake of memory availability computation, we use the -mem-prealloc
>> argument when enabling hugepages, so KVM will reserve all hugepages it
>> needs when it starts. This avoids allocating an instance on a node that
>> will not have enough pages in case other instance needs more than what
>> is available after it boots.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho <[email protected]>
>
> LGTM (and applied)
>
> Note that I changed the commit message from "transparent hugepages" to
> "hugepages" because transparent hugepages is a separate kernel patch
> to avoid the need to use hugetlbfs altogether.

Hmm, did you apply with the two extend calls? Those could have been
collapsed into one…

iustin

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