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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Guaranteed allocation of huge pages (1G) using movablecore=N doesn't seem to work at all
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 14:05:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171106130507.bm75uclqqoniqwdv@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACAwPwY0owut+314c5sy7jNViZqfrKy3sSf1hjLTocXefrz3xA@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat 04-11-17 11:55:14, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> My system has 64G of ram and I want to create 32 1G huge pages to use
> in KVM virtualization,
> on demand, only when VM is running.
> 
> So I booted the kernel with
> 'hugepagesz=1G hugepages=0 default_hugepagesz=1G movablecore=40G'

Why do you think movablecore will help you? Giga pages are not
migrateable and as such they do not end up on movable zones.

I have recently changed the code to reflect that reality because
allowing giga pages to consume movable zone simply breaks memory
hotplug.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-06 13:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-04  9:55 Maxim Levitsky
2017-11-06 13:05 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2017-11-06 17:03   ` Maxim Levitsky
2017-11-06 17:11     ` Michal Hocko
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2017-11-06 17:36                       ` Maxim Levitsky
2017-11-06 18:04                         ` Michal Hocko
2017-11-06 18:13                           ` Maxim Levitsky
2017-11-06 18:32                             ` Michal Hocko
2017-11-06 19:31                               ` Michal Hocko
2017-11-06 22:32                                 ` Maxim Levitsky
2017-11-07  8:20                               ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-11-07  8:30                                 ` Michal Hocko

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