On Thu, 13 Feb 2014, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> From: Luiz capitulino <lcapitul...@redhat.com>
>
> The HugeTLB command-line option hugepages= allows a user to specify how
> many huge pages should be allocated at boot. This option is needed because
> it improves reliability when allocating 1G huge pages, which are better
> allocated as early as possible due to fragmentation.
>
> However, hugepages= has a limitation. On NUMA systems, hugepages= will
> automatically distribute memory allocation equally among nodes. For
> example, if you have a 2-node NUMA system and allocate 200 huge pages,
> than hugepages= will try to allocate 100 huge pages from node0 and 100
> from node1.
>
> This is very unflexible, as it doesn't allow you to specify which nodes
> the huge pages should be allocated from. For example, there are use-cases
> where the user wants to specify that a 1GB huge page should be allocated
> from node 2 or that 300 2MB huge pages should be allocated from node 0.
>
> The hugepages_node= command-line option introduced by this commit allows
> just that.
>
> The syntax is:
>
> hugepages_node=nid:nr_pages:size,...
>
Again, I think this syntax is horrendous and doesn't couple well with the
other hugepage-related kernel command line options. We already have
hugepages= and hugepagesz= which you can interleave on the command line to
get 100 2M hugepages and 10 1GB hugepages, for example.
This patchset is simply introducing another variable to the matter: the
node that the hugepages should be allocated on. So just introduce a
hugepagesnode= parameter to couple with the others so you can do
hugepagesz=<size> hugepagesnode=<nid> hugepages=<#>
instead of having completely confusing interfaces where you want to do
hugepages_node=1:1:1G for a 1GB hugepage on page 1 (and try remembering
which "1" means what, yuck) and "hugepagesz=1GB hugepages=1" if you're
indifferent to the node.
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