Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752950AbaBVEb3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Feb 2014 23:31:29 -0500 Received: from g9t1613g.houston.hp.com ([15.240.0.71]:49807 "EHLO g9t1613g.houston.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751514AbaBVEb2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Feb 2014 23:31:28 -0500 Message-ID: <1393043471.2473.0.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] hugetlb: add hugepages_node= command-line option From: Davidlohr Bueso To: Andi Kleen Cc: Andrew Morton , David Rientjes , Luiz Capitulino , mtosatti@redhat.com, Mel Gorman , Andrea Arcangeli , Rik van Riel , isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com, yinghai@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 20:31:11 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20140222040350.GI22728@two.firstfloor.org> References: <1392339728-13487-1-git-send-email-lcapitulino@redhat.com> <1392339728-13487-5-git-send-email-lcapitulino@redhat.com> <20140214225810.57e854cb@redhat.com> <1392702456.2468.4.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net> <20140221155423.6c6689e27fa10ed394f01843@linux-foundation.org> <20140222040350.GI22728@two.firstfloor.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.4 (3.6.4-3.fc18) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2014-02-22 at 05:03 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > 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. > > Not sure why everyone wants to break existing systems. These options > have existed for many years, you cannot not just remove them. > > Also the old options are totally fine and work adequately for the > vast majority of users who do not need to control node assignment > fine grained. Yes, please, why can't both options just coexist. -- 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/