[RFC PATCH 0/3 updated] add support for free hugepage reporting

2020-12-22 Thread Liang Li
A typical usage of hugetlbfs it's to reserve amount of memory during kernel booting, and the reserved pages are unlikely to return to the buddy system. When application need hugepages, kernel will allocate them from the reserved pool. when application terminates, huge pages will return to the

[RFC PATCH 0/3 updated] add support for free hugepage reporting

2020-12-22 Thread Liang Li
A typical usage of hugetlbfs it's to reserve amount of memory during kernel booting, and the reserved pages are unlikely to return to the buddy system. When application need hugepages, kernel will allocate them from the reserved pool. when application terminates, huge pages will return to the