Re: + mm-hugetlb-make-alloc_gigantic_page-available-for-general-use.patch added to -mm tree

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On 10/14/19 6:08 AM, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> On 10/14/2019 06:30 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
>>
>> OK, thanks for the clarification. This all means that this patch is not
>> the right approach. If you need a more generic alloc_contig_range then
>> add it to page_alloc.c and make it completely independent on the hugetlb
>> config and the code. Hugetlb allocator can reuse that helper.

Should we revisit this previous attempt at such an interface?

https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/16/1072

This looks like another use case.
-- 
Mike Kravetz




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