On 2012-11-15 03:42, telenn barz wrote:
> Making some tests with libhugetlbfs on kernel 2.6.34, backing
> automatically the heap, we realized that the fallback mechanism is
> all-or-nothing : if theres not enough hugepages, the whole asked
> memory is backed by base pages.
>
> We expected libhugetlbfs to mix hugepages / basepages in such a case.
> Would there be any issue with this requirement ?
>
> Thanks,
> Telenn


Telenn,

This may be possible on x86/x86_64 but it isn't possible on POWER due 
to memory segment page size restrictions.  To avoid having arch 
dependent morecore hooks we have not attempted this.

Eric

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