On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 14:58:08 -0800 Mike Kravetz <[email protected]> wrote:
> hugetlbfs allocates huge pages from the global pool as needed. Even if > the global pool contains a sufficient number pages for the filesystem > size at mount time, those global pages could be grabbed for some other > use. As a result, filesystem huge page allocations may fail due to lack > of pages. Well OK, but why is this a sufficiently serious problem to justify kernel changes? Please provide enough info for others to be able to understand the value of the change. -- 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/
