On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 2:18 PM Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 01:56:40PM +0530, vijay nag wrote:
> > Hello Linux-MM,
> >
> > My containerized application which is suppose to have a very low RSS(by
> default
> > containers patterns are to have low memory footprint) seems to be
> getting its
> > BSS segment RSS bloated due to THPs. Although there is a huge zero page
> > support, the overhead seems to be at-least 2MB even when a byte is
> dirtied.
> > Also there are tune-able to disable this feature,  but this seems to be a
> > system wide setting. Is there a plan to make this setting cgroup aware ?
>
> It's possible to control THP on per-mapping using madvise(MADV_NOHUGEPAGE)
> and per-process using prctl(PR_SET_THP_DISABLE).
>
> > Thanks,
> > Vijay Nag
>
> --
> Sincerely yours,
> Mike.
>
> Thanks for letting me know of this setting. However, there could be a
third party daemons/processes that have THP in them. Do you think it is a
good idea to make it cgroup aware ?