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Message-ID: <20140822141807.GA5803@tassilo.jf.intel.com>
Date:	Fri, 22 Aug 2014 07:18:07 -0700
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Hillf Danton <dhillf@...il.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] mm/hugetlb: gigantic hugetlb page pools shrink
 supporting

> >commit 944d9fec8d7aee3f2e16573e9b6a16634b33f403
> >Author: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@...hat.com>
> >Date:   Wed Jun 4 16:07:13 2014 -0700
> >
> >    hugetlb: add support for gigantic page allocation at runtime
> >
> >
> 
> Ah, thanks for your pointing out.

I should add the CMA allocation would still make sense, as CMA would do
compaction and better pre-allocation while this does not. Should probably
revisit the issue. But it's at least partially solved now.


-Andi
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