Re: [PATCH 5/9] mbind: add hugepage migration code to mbind()

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Sep 10 2013 - 18:47:12 EST


> > It makes me wonder how actually useful generic hugetlbfs page migration
> > will be in practice. Are there really usecases where the system
> > administrator is willing to create unused hugepage pools on each node
> > just to enable migration?
>
> Maybe most users don't want it.

I'm sure some power users will be willing to do that.
Of course for a lot of others THP is enough.

-Andi
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