Re: [PATCH 0/6] hugetlbfs: support free page reporting

2021-01-06 Thread Liang Li
On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 5:41 PM David Hildenbrand wrote: > > On 06.01.21 04:46, Liang Li wrote: > > A typical usage of hugetlbfs it's to reserve amount of memory > > during the kernel booting stage, and the reserved pages are > > unlikely to return to the buddy system. When application need > > hug

Re: [PATCH 0/6] hugetlbfs: support free page reporting

2021-01-06 Thread David Hildenbrand
On 06.01.21 04:46, Liang Li wrote: > A typical usage of hugetlbfs it's to reserve amount of memory > during the kernel booting stage, and the reserved pages are > unlikely to return to the buddy system. When application need > hugepages, kernel will allocate them from the reserved pool. > when appl

[PATCH 0/6] hugetlbfs: support free page reporting

2021-01-05 Thread Liang Li
A typical usage of hugetlbfs it's to reserve amount of memory during the kernel booting stage, and the reserved pages are unlikely to return to the buddy system. When application need hugepages, kernel will allocate them from the reserved pool. when application terminates, huge pages will return to