On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 14:58:08 -0800 Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hugetlbfs allocates huge pages from the global pool as needed. Even if > the global pool contains a sufficient number pages for the filesystem > size at mount time, those global pages could be grabbed for some other > use. As a result, filesystem huge page allocations may fail due to lack > of pages. Well OK, but why is this a sufficiently serious problem to justify kernel changes? Please provide enough info for others to be able to understand the value of the change. -- 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>