On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 01:21:42AM -0400, Naoya Horiguchi wrote: > Now we have extended hugepage migration and it's opened to many users > of page migration, which is a good reason to consider hugepage as movable. > So we can go to the direction to remove this parameter. In order to > allow userspace to prepare for the removal, let's leave this sysctl handler > as noop for a while. >
Note that this assumes that users interested in memory hot-remove and hugepages are also willing to resize the hugepage pool on the target nodes before attempting the hot-remove operation. I guess that technically the necessary setup steps could be done from userspace or manually by the system administrator but it may not be obvious to the system administrator that the step is required. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
