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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH Linux 2.6.31] Add hugepage support to the balloon
| To: | Dave McCracken <dcm@xxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH Linux 2.6.31] Add hugepage support to the balloon driver |
| From: | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:56:13 -0700 |
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On 10/28/09 08:44, Dave McCracken wrote:
> This patch adds a boot command line switch "balloon_hugepages" that makes the
> balloon driver work entirely in hugepages.
>
> This version of the code checks to make sure each page is contiguous at the
> machine level. If it is not, it frees each page individually. When the huge
> page is reallocated it will be contiguous.
>
> Dave McCracken
>
Looks reasonable. Does this depend on any other changes to support
hugepages?
Is "Dave McCracken <dcm@xxxxxxxx>" the address you want to sign this off
with, or an Oracle address?
J
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