From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pd0-f172.google.com (mail-pd0-f172.google.com [209.85.192.172]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A7FE6B00F8 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 23:31:20 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-pd0-f172.google.com with SMTP id y13so882909pdi.31 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 20:31:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from g2t2352.austin.hp.com (g2t2352.austin.hp.com. [15.217.128.51]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id gk3si9407741pac.31.2014.02.21.20.31.18 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 21 Feb 2014 20:31:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <1393043471.2473.0.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] hugetlb: add hugepages_node= command-line option From: Davidlohr Bueso Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 20:31:11 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20140222040350.GI22728@two.firstfloor.org> References: <1392339728-13487-1-git-send-email-lcapitulino@redhat.com> <1392339728-13487-5-git-send-email-lcapitulino@redhat.com> <20140214225810.57e854cb@redhat.com> <1392702456.2468.4.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net> <20140221155423.6c6689e27fa10ed394f01843@linux-foundation.org> <20140222040350.GI22728@two.firstfloor.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andi Kleen Cc: Andrew Morton , David Rientjes , Luiz Capitulino , mtosatti@redhat.com, Mel Gorman , Andrea Arcangeli , Rik van Riel , isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com, yinghai@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org On Sat, 2014-02-22 at 05:03 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > But I think it would be better if it made hugepages= and hugepagesz= > > obsolete, so we can emit a printk if people use those, telling them > > to migrate because the old options are going away. > > Not sure why everyone wants to break existing systems. These options > have existed for many years, you cannot not just remove them. > > Also the old options are totally fine and work adequately for the > vast majority of users who do not need to control node assignment > fine grained. Yes, please, why can't both options just coexist. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org