On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 01:02:34PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > The only scenario I can see where it degrades is that you have a dcache > load that spills over to all of memory, then falls back leaving a pinned > page in every huge frame. It can happen, but I don't see it as a likely > scenario. But maybe I'm missing something. And in my understanding this is exactly the scenario that kernelcore= should prevent from ever materialize. Providing math guarantees without kernelcore= is probably futile. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>