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From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com>, Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>,
	Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@kernel.org>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] Delay initializing of large sections of memory
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 11:40:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAE9FiQV5z+3AXy5c=aaU3vq1V3fibJ6PhhA4VW5H8BWVzhxXPA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51C9DEC1.6030602@zytor.com>

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:17 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> 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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-06-25 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-21 16:25 [RFC 0/2] Delay initializing of large sections of memory Nathan Zimmer
2013-06-21 16:25 ` [RFC 1/2] x86_64, mm: Delay initializing large portion " Nathan Zimmer
2013-06-25  4:14   ` Rob Landley
2013-06-21 16:25 ` [RFC 2/2] x86_64, mm: Reinsert the absent memory Nathan Zimmer
2013-06-23  9:28   ` Ingo Molnar
2013-06-23  9:32     ` Ingo Molnar
2013-06-24 17:38       ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-06-24 19:39         ` Ingo Molnar
2013-06-24 20:08           ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-06-25  7:31             ` Ingo Molnar
2013-06-24 20:36     ` Nathan Zimmer
2013-06-25  7:38       ` Ingo Molnar
2013-06-25 15:07         ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-06-25 17:19           ` Mike Travis
2013-06-25 17:22         ` Mike Travis
2013-06-25 18:43           ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-06-25 18:51             ` Mike Travis
2013-06-26  9:22               ` [RFC] Transparent on-demand memory setup initialization embedded in the (GFP) buddy allocator Ingo Molnar
2013-06-26 13:28                 ` Andrew Morton
2013-06-26 13:37                   ` Ingo Molnar
2013-06-26 15:02                     ` Nathan Zimmer
2013-06-26 16:15                     ` Mike Travis
2013-06-26 12:14       ` [RFC 2/2] x86_64, mm: Reinsert the absent memory Ingo Molnar
2013-06-26 14:49         ` Nathan Zimmer
2013-06-26 15:12           ` Dave Hansen
2013-06-26 15:20             ` Nathan Zimmer
2013-06-26 15:58               ` Ingo Molnar
2013-06-26 16:11                 ` Nathan Zimmer
2013-06-26 16:07         ` Mike Travis
2013-06-21 16:51 ` [RFC 0/2] Delay initializing of large sections of memory Greg KH
2013-06-21 17:03   ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-06-21 17:18     ` Nathan Zimmer
2013-06-21 17:28       ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-06-21 20:05         ` Nathan Zimmer
2013-06-21 20:08           ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-06-21 20:33             ` Nathan Zimmer
2013-06-21 21:36             ` Mike Travis
2013-06-21 21:07       ` Mike Travis
2013-06-21 18:44     ` Yinghai Lu
2013-06-21 18:50       ` Greg KH
2013-06-21 19:10         ` Yinghai Lu
2013-06-21 19:19           ` Nathan Zimmer
2013-06-21 20:28             ` Yinghai Lu
2013-06-21 20:40               ` Nathan Zimmer
2013-06-21 21:30         ` Mike Travis
2013-06-22  0:23           ` Yinghai Lu
2013-06-25 17:35             ` Mike Travis
2013-06-25 18:17               ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-06-25 18:40                 ` Mike Travis
2013-06-25 18:40                 ` Yinghai Lu [this message]
2013-06-25 18:44                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-06-25 18:58                     ` Mike Travis
2013-06-25 19:03                       ` Yinghai Lu
2013-06-25 19:09                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-06-25 19:28                           ` Yinghai Lu
2013-06-27  6:37                       ` Yinghai Lu
2013-06-27 11:05                         ` Robin Holt
2013-06-27 15:50                         ` Mike Travis
2013-06-26  9:23                   ` Ingo Molnar
2013-06-25 18:38               ` Yinghai Lu
2013-06-25 18:42                 ` Mike Travis
2013-06-21 18:36 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-06-21 18:44   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-06-21 19:00     ` Yinghai Lu
2013-06-21 21:28       ` Mike Travis
2013-06-21 21:19   ` Mike Travis

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