On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 13:58:40 -0400 Luiz Capitulino <[email protected]> wrote:
> The HugeTLB subsystem uses the buddy allocator to allocate hugepages during > runtime. This means that hugepages allocation during runtime is limited to > MAX_ORDER order. For archs supporting gigantic pages (that is, page sizes > greater than MAX_ORDER), this in turn means that those pages can't be > allocated at runtime. Dumb question: what's wrong with just increasing MAX_ORDER? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
