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Howlett wrote: > * David Hildenbrand [250515 10:44]: >> On 15.05.25 16:40, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote: >>> Overall I feel this series should _DEFINITELY_ be an RFC. This is pretty >>> outlandish stuff and needs discussion. >>> >>> You're basically making it so /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled = >>> never is completely ignored and overridden. >> >> I thought I made it very clear during earlier discussions that never means >> never. > > I also thought so, but the comments later made here [1] seem to > contradict that? It's ... complicated. > > It seems "never" means "default_no" and not actually "never"? We should consider these system toggles a single set of toggles that define a state, and not individual toggles that overwrite each other. If you say /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled = never and /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepages-2048kB/enabled = always instead of the *default* /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepages-2048kB/enabled = inherit the admin explicitly stats "I want the system behavior for 2048kB not to be configured using /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled". That's an admin decision, not a per-process overwrite or whatever. > > Maybe the global/system toggles need to affect the state of each other? > That is, if /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled is never and you > set /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepages-2048kB/enabled to > madvise, it should not leave /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled > as never. I recall we discussed that, but there was also a catch to that. :( -- Cheers, David / dhildenb