From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C470E9000BD for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:58:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:58:45 +0100 From: Mel Gorman Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: completely disable THP by transparent_hugepage=never Message-ID: <20110620165844.GA9396@suse.de> References: <1308587683-2555-1-git-send-email-amwang@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1308587683-2555-1-git-send-email-amwang@redhat.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Amerigo Wang Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Andrea Arcangeli , Rik van Riel , Johannes Weiner , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , linux-mm@kvack.org On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:34:28AM +0800, Amerigo Wang wrote: > transparent_hugepage=never should mean to disable THP completely, > otherwise we don't have a way to disable THP completely. > The design is broken. > I don't get why it's broken. Why would the user be prevented from enabling it at runtime? -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org