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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: thomas.prescher@cyberus-technology.de
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: hugetlb: add hugetlb_alloc_threads cmdline option
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:52:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z7iFHkybeT4v8Jbo@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250221-hugepage-parameter-v1-1-fa49a77c87c8@cyberus-technology.de>

On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 02:49:03PM +0100, Thomas Prescher via B4 Relay wrote:
> Add a command line option that enables control of how many
> threads per NUMA node should be used to allocate huge pages.

I don't think we should add a command line option (ie blame the sysadmin
for getting it wrong).  Instead, we should figure out the right number.
Is it half the number of threads per socket?  A quarter?  90%?  It's
bootup, the threads aren't really doing anything else.  But we
should figure it out, not the sysadmin.


  reply	other threads:[~2025-02-21 13:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-02-21 13:49 [PATCH 0/2] Add a command line option that enables control of how many threads per NUMA node should be used to allocate huge pages Thomas Prescher via B4 Relay
2025-02-21 13:49 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: hugetlb: add hugetlb_alloc_threads cmdline option Thomas Prescher via B4 Relay
2025-02-21 13:52   ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2025-02-21 14:16     ` Thomas Prescher
2025-02-23  2:46       ` Andrew Morton
2025-02-24 10:42         ` Thomas Prescher
2025-02-24 17:37   ` Frank van der Linden
2025-02-25 13:01     ` Thomas Prescher
2025-02-21 13:49 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: hugetlb: log time needed to allocate hugepages Thomas Prescher via B4 Relay

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