Mike Kravetz <[email protected]> writes: > 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.
What's the difference of this new option to simply doing mount -t hugetlbfs none /huge echo XXX > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages ? -Andi -- [email protected] -- Speaking for myself only -- 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/
