linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] hugetlb: add hugepages

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Date:	Fri, 21 Feb 2014 23:55:08 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, davidlohr@...com,
	isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com, yinghai@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] hugetlb: add hugepages_node= command-line option

> But, like I said, I'm not sure we'd ever be able to totally remove it 
> because of backwards compatibility, but the point is that nobody would 
> have to use it anymore as a hack for 1GB.

Again it's a perfectly fine and widely used interface. Any talk of removing
it is wrong.

-Andi
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