linux-kernel - Re: (not so much) Fun with THP

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Date:	Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:47:41 -0500
From:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>
To:	Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>
Cc:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	hannes@...xchg.org, ryomov@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: (not so much) Fun with THP

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 06:52:55PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:57:06 +0100, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 03:58:30PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > > On the one F15 box I've dared enable THP with, it hasn't succeeded in
> > > booting (with or without KMS).  First it OOMed during lvm:
> > 
> > Sorry, for x86_32 there was some issue, below is all you need, thanks!
> 
> Thank you, I was missing the paravirt patch.

Thanks Chris, Andrea,

That explains a bug I've had users seeing which I cannot reproduce
(since I'm all on 64-bit...)

regards,
--Kyle
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