Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH 0/4] [hugetlb] Dynamic huge page pool resizing

2007-09-25 Thread Balbir Singh
Adam Litke wrote: > How it works > > > Upon depletion of the hugetlb pool, rather than reporting an error > immediately, > first try and allocate the needed huge pages directly from the buddy > allocator. > Care must be taken to avoid unbounded growth of the hugetlb pool, so the > h

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH 0/4] [hugetlb] Dynamic huge page pool resizing

2007-09-25 Thread Adam Litke
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 16:52 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote: > Adam Litke wrote: > > How it works > > > > > > Upon depletion of the hugetlb pool, rather than reporting an error > > immediately, > > first try and allocate the needed huge pages directly from the buddy > > allocator. > > Car

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH 0/4] [hugetlb] Dynamic huge page pool resizing

2007-09-25 Thread Balbir Singh
Adam Litke wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 16:52 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote: >> Adam Litke wrote: >>> How it works >>> >>> >>> Upon depletion of the hugetlb pool, rather than reporting an error >>> immediately, >>> first try and allocate the needed huge pages directly from the buddy >>