HugeTLB command-line option hugepages= allows the user to specify how many huge pages should be allocated at boot. On NUMA systems, this argument automatically distributes huge pages allocation among nodes, which can be undesirable.
The hugepagesnid= option introduced by this commit allows the user to specify which NUMA nodes should be used to allocate boot-time HugeTLB pages. For example, hugepagesnid=0,2,2G will allocate two 2G huge pages from node 0 only. More details on patch 3/4 and patch 4/4. Luiz capitulino (4): memblock: memblock_virt_alloc_internal(): alloc from specified node only memblock: add memblock_virt_alloc_nid_nopanic() hugetlb: add hugepagesnid= command-line option hugetlb: hugepagesnid=: add 1G huge page support Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 8 +++ arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 35 ++++++++++++ include/linux/bootmem.h | 4 ++ include/linux/hugetlb.h | 2 + mm/hugetlb.c | 103 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ mm/memblock.c | 41 ++++++++++++-- 6 files changed, 190 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) -- 1.8.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/