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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst index e4d4b4a8dc97..67a941903fd2 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst @@ -145,7 +145,17 @@ hugepages It will allocate 1 2M hugepage on node0 and 2 2M hugepages on node1. If the node number is invalid, the parameter will be ignored. +hugepage_alloc_threads + Specify the number of threads that should be used to allocate hugepages + during boot. This parameter can be used to improve system bootup time + when allocating a large amount of huge pages. + The default value is 25% of the available hardware threads. + Example to use 8 allocation threads:: + + hugepage_alloc_threads=8 + + Note that this parameter only applies to non-gigantic huge pages. default_hugepagesz Specify the default huge page size. This parameter can only be specified once on the command line. default_hugepagesz can @@ -376,6 +386,13 @@ Note that the number of overcommit and reserve pages remain global quantities, as we don't know until fault time, when the faulting task's mempolicy is applied, from which node the huge page allocation will be attempted. +The hugetlb may be migrated between the per-node hugepages pool in the following +scenarios: memory offline, memory failure, longterm pinning, syscalls(mbind, +migrate_pages and move_pages), alloc_contig_range() and alloc_contig_pages(). +Now only memory offline, memory failure and syscalls allow fallbacking to allocate +a new hugetlb on a different node if the current node is unable to allocate during +hugetlb migration, that means these 3 cases can break the per-node hugepages pool. + .. _using_huge_pages: Using Huge Pages |