Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753527Ab3FYSky (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:40:54 -0400 Received: from mail-ie0-f181.google.com ([209.85.223.181]:59170 "EHLO mail-ie0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753291Ab3FYSkv (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:40:51 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <51C9DEC1.6030602@zytor.com> References: <1371831934-156971-1-git-send-email-nzimmer@sgi.com> <20130621165142.GA32125@kroah.com> <51C48745.9030304@zytor.com> <20130621185056.GA23473@kroah.com> <51C4C5F3.3050800@sgi.com> <51C9D4ED.5070805@sgi.com> <51C9DEC1.6030602@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 11:40:50 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: qSwOujc_4rdTKxrnf72eurq62LY Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] Delay initializing of large sections of memory From: Yinghai Lu To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Mike Travis , Greg KH , Nathan Zimmer , Robin Holt , Rob Landley , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , "the arch/x86 maintainers" , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 649 Lines: 15 On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:17 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 06/25/2013 10:35 AM, Mike Travis wrote: > However, please consider Ingo's counterproposal of doing this via the > buddy allocator, i.e. hugepages being broken on demand. That is a > *very* powerful model, although would require more infrastructure. Can you or Ingo elaborate more about the buddy allocator proposal? Thanks -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/