linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] hugetlbfs: optionally reserve all fs pages at mount time

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Message-ID: <54FA2A8D.5090509@oracle.com>
Date:	Fri, 06 Mar 2015 14:30:37 -0800
From:	Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
CC:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
	Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] hugetlbfs: optionally reserve all fs pages at mount
 time

On 03/06/2015 02:13 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com> 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

In the above sequence, it is still possible for another user/application
to allocate some (or all) of the XXX huge pages.  There is no guarantee
that users of the filesystem will get all XXX pages.

I see the use of the reserve option to be:
# Make sure there are XXX huge pages in the global pool
echo XXX > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
# Mount/create the filesystem and reserve XXX huge pages
mount -t hugetlbfs -o size=XXX,reserve=XXX none /huge

If the mount is successful, then users of the filesystem know their are
XXX huge pages available for their use.

-- 
Mike Kravetz
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