On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:47:36 -0800 Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@xxxxxx> wrote: > > How is that difficult? hugepages= is the "noun", hugepagesz= is the > > "adjective". hugepages=100 hugepagesz=1G hugepages=4 makes perfect sense > > to me, and I actually don't allocate hugepages on the command line, nor > > have I looked at Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt to check if I'm > > constructing it correctly. It just makes sense and once you learn it it's > > just natural. > > This can get annoying _really_ fast for larger systems. Yes, I do prefer the syntax Luiz is proposing. But I think it would be better if it made hugepages= and hugepagesz= obsolete, so we can emit a printk if people use those, telling them to migrate because the old options are going away. Something like hugepages_node=1:4:1G and hugepages_node=:16:1G ? -- 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>