On Wed, 19 Feb 2014, Luiz Capitulino wrote: > > Yes, my concrete objection is that the command line interface is > > unnecessary if you can dynamically allocate and free 1GB pages at runtime > > unless memory will be so fragmented that it cannot be done when userspace > > is brought up. That is not your use case, thus this support is not > > Yes it is. The early boot is the most reliable moment to allocate huge pages > and we want to take advantage from that. >
Your use case is 8GB of hugepages on a 32GB machine. It shouldn't be necessary to do that at boot. Thanks. -- 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/
