On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:17:32 +0100 Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:27:44PM -0500, Luiz Capitulino wrote: > > HugeTLB command-line option hugepages= allows the user to specify how many > > huge pages should be allocated at boot. On NUMA systems, this argument > > automatically distributes huge pages allocation among nodes, which can > > be undesirable. > > > > The hugepagesnid= option introduced by this commit allows the user > > to specify which NUMA nodes should be used to allocate boot-time HugeTLB > > pages. For example, hugepagesnid=0,2,2G will allocate two 2G huge pages > > from node 0 only. More details on patch 3/4 and patch 4/4. > > The syntax seems very confusing. Can you make that more obvious? I guess that my bad description in this email may have contributed to make it look confusing. The real syntax is hugepagesnid=nid,nr-pages,size. Which looks straightforward to me. I honestly can't think of anything better than that, but I'm open for suggestions. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>