Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:23:55 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 0/2] Delay initializing of large sections of memory |
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* Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote:
> 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?
Ok, I just wrote a fuller proposal, with cons and pros listed as well.
I think it's a winner but hey.
Thanks,
Ingo
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