On Mon, 18 Dec 2023, Gang Li wrote: > Hi, > > On 2023/12/13 08:10, David Rientjes wrote: > > On 6.6 I measured "hugepagesz=1G hugepages=11776" on as 12TB host to be > > 77s this time around. > > Thanks for your test! Is this the total kernel boot time, or just the > hugetlb initialization time? > Ah, sorry for not being specific. It's just the hugetlb preallocation of 11776 1GB hugetlb pages, total boot takes a few more minutes. > > A latest Linus build with this patch set does not boot successfully, so > > Which branch/tag is it compiled on? > I test this patch on v6.7-rc4 and next-20231130. > It was the latest Linus tip of tree. I'll continue to try again until I get a successful boot and report back, serial console won't be possible for unrelated reasons.