At 2013-11-15 15:17:32 +0200, hlinnakangas@vmware.com wrote:
>
> I spent some time whacking this around, new patch version attached.
Thanks.
> But I'm not wedded to the idea if someone objects; a log message might
> also be reasonable: "LOG: huge TLB pages are not supported on this
> platform, but huge_tlb_pages was 'on'"
Put that way, I have to wonder if the right thing to do is just to have
a "try_huge_pages=on|off" setting, and log a warning if the attempt did
not succeed. It would be easier to document, and I don't think there's
much point in making it an error if the allocation fails.
-- Abhijit
P.S. I'd be happy to do the followup work for this patch (updating
documentation, etc.), but it'll have to wait until I recover from
this !#$&@! stomach bug.