Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Two new sysfs files are added to demote hugtlb pages. These files are > both per-hugetlb page size and per node. Files are: > demote_size - The size in Kb that pages are demoted to. (read-write) > demote - The number of huge pages to demote. (write-only) > > By default, demote_size is the next smallest huge page size. Valid huge > page sizes less than huge page size may be written to this file. When > huge pages are demoted, they are demoted to this size. > > Writing a value to demote will result in an attempt to demote that > number of hugetlb pages to an appropriate number of demote_size pages. > > NOTE: Demote interfaces are only provided for huge page sizes if there > is a smaller target demote huge page size. For example, on x86 1GB huge > pages will have demote interfaces. 2MB huge pages will not have demote > interfaces. Should we also check if the platform allows for gigantic_page_runtime_supported() ? -aneesh
