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
> hugetlb filesystem quota is used to limit overall pool size.
>
If I understand hugetlb correctly, there is no accounting of hugepages
to the RSS of any process. Since the pool will no longer be static,
should we also consider changes to the accounting of hugepages?
--
Warm Regards,
Balbir Singh
Linux Technology Center
IBM, ISTL
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