From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx143.postini.com [74.125.245.143]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 974166B009E for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 18:47:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 00:47:04 +0200 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] mbind: add hugepage migration code to mbind() Message-ID: <20130910224704.GD18242@two.firstfloor.org> References: <1376025702-14818-1-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> <1376025702-14818-6-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> <20130910144109.GR22421@suse.de> <1378850009-y4wd5ph0-mutt-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1378850009-y4wd5ph0-mutt-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Mel Gorman , Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, Hugh Dickins , KOSAKI Motohiro , Andi Kleen , Hillf Danton , Michal Hocko , Rik van Riel , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , Wanpeng Li , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Naoya Horiguchi > > It makes me wonder how actually useful generic hugetlbfs page migration > > will be in practice. Are there really usecases where the system > > administrator is willing to create unused hugepage pools on each node > > just to enable migration? > > Maybe most users don't want it. I'm sure some power users will be willing to do that. Of course for a lot of others THP is enough. -Andi -- 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