Re: [PATCH] [0/6] HUGETLB memory commitment

[Andy Whitcroft]

--On 25 March 2004 15:51 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think it's simply:
>
> - Make normal overcommit logic skip hugepages completely
>
> - Teach the overcommit_memory=2 logic that hugepages are basically
>   "pinned", so subtract them from the arithmetic.
>
> And that's it.  The hugepages are semantically quite different from normal
> memory (prefaulted, preallocated, unswappable) and we've deliberately
> avoided pretending otherwise.

True currently.  Though the thread that prompted this was in response to 
the time taken for this prefault and for the wish to fault them.

I'll have a poke about at it and see how small I can make it.

-apw
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