Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] sparc64: Add 16GB hugepage support

2017-06-19 Thread David Miller
You need to provide a proper "[PATCH xxx 0/N] " header posting explaining what the series is doing at a high level, how it is doing it, and why it is doing it that way. A patch series is a collection of related patches attempting to achieve a specific high level end goal. If, instead, these are

Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] sparc64: Add 16GB hugepage support

2017-06-19 Thread David Miller
You need to provide a proper "[PATCH xxx 0/N] " header posting explaining what the series is doing at a high level, how it is doing it, and why it is doing it that way. A patch series is a collection of related patches attempting to achieve a specific high level end goal. If, instead, these are

[PATCH v3 1/4] sparc64: Add 16GB hugepage support

2017-06-19 Thread Nitin Gupta
Adds support for 16GB hugepage size. To use this page size use kernel parameters as: default_hugepagesz=16G hugepagesz=16G hugepages=10 Testing: Tested with the stream benchmark which allocates 48G of arrays backed by 16G hugepages and does RW operation on them in parallel. Orabug: 25362942

[PATCH v3 1/4] sparc64: Add 16GB hugepage support

2017-06-19 Thread Nitin Gupta
Adds support for 16GB hugepage size. To use this page size use kernel parameters as: default_hugepagesz=16G hugepagesz=16G hugepages=10 Testing: Tested with the stream benchmark which allocates 48G of arrays backed by 16G hugepages and does RW operation on them in parallel. Orabug: 25362942