[pve-devel] pve-kernel from repos more recent that proxmox git ?

[Dietmar Maurer]

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> From: pve-devel-bounces at pve.proxmox.com [mailto:pve-devel-
> bounces at pve.proxmox.com] On Behalf Of Dietmar Maurer
> Sent: Dienstag, 10. April 2012 07:40
> To: Alexandre DERUMIER
> Cc: pve-devel at pve.proxmox.com
> Subject: Re: [pve-devel] pve-kernel from repos more recent that proxmox git ?
> 
> > >> Maybe a stupid question, but can't we enable that only for KVM processes?
> > I don't think it's possible. It's enable for the whole system.
> 
> So why is there a MADV_HUGEPAGE flag?
> 
> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/madvise.2.html
> 
> We need to figure that out.

Seems newer kernels have 3 options: 'always', 'never' and 'madvise'

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=blob;f=mm/huge_memory.c;h=f0e5306eeb55e8e179da3abbe6c033045b6ad073;hb=HEAD

- Dietmar