Re: [PATCH 0/6] mm/hugetlb: gigantic hugetlb page pools shrink supporting

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri Aug 22 2014 - 10:18:28 EST


> >commit 944d9fec8d7aee3f2e16573e9b6a16634b33f403
> >Author: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >Date: Wed Jun 4 16:07:13 2014 -0700
> >
> > hugetlb: add support for gigantic page allocation at runtime
> >
> >
>
> Ah, thanks for your pointing out.

I should add the CMA allocation would still make sense, as CMA would do
compaction and better pre-allocation while this does not. Should probably
revisit the issue. But it's at least partially solved now.


-Andi
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