Re: [PATCH V2 17/23] kvm tools: Add ability to map guest RAM from hugetlbfs

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On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Matt Evans <matt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, I'm manually mapping from hugetlbfs as currently* PPC KVM requires
> hugepages to back guest RAM and MADV_HUGEPAGE is just a hint, no?  I also wanted
> things to work on kernels without transparent hugepages enabled.  I think it's
> safer to do things explicitly, as if the user requests hugepages it's more
> transparent (I'm thinking benchmarking, etc.) to be definitely using hugepages.

OK, makes sense. You should probably mention that in the changelog.
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