On Tue 16-02-21 14:30:15, Mike Kravetz wrote: [...] > However, this is an 'opt in' feature. So, I would not expect anyone who > carefully plans the size of their hugetlb pool to enable such a feature. > If there is a use case where hugetlb pages are used in a non-essential > application, this might be of use. I would really like to hear about the specific usecase. Because it smells more like a misconfiguration. What would be non-essential hugetlb pages? This is not a resource to be pre-allocated just in case, right? -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs