On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 04:33:50PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > So where does the pagetable go? They're preallocated together with the hugepage and queued into the mm to retain locality. This way a huge pmd can be converted to a regular pmd pointing to the preallocated pte on the fly without GFP_KERNEL allocations. -- 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>