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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>,
	Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com>, Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
	Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>, Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
	Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	Itaru Kitayama <itaru.kitayama@gmail.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/5] mm: LARGE_ANON_FOLIO for improved performance
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 13:29:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZPCHpOtYgq32leay@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4e14730b-4e4c-de30-04bb-9f3ec4a93754@redhat.com>

On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 09:57:46AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> As raised in another mail, we can then discuss
> * how we want to call this feature (transparent large pages? there is
>   the concern that "THP" might confuse users. Maybe we can consider
>   "large" the more generic version and "huge" only PMD-size, TBD)
> * how to expose it in stats towards the user (e.g., /proc/meminfo)
> * which minimal toggles we want
> 
> I think there *really* has to be a way to disable it for a running system,
> otherwise no distro will dare pulling it in, even after we figured out the
> other stuff.
> 
> Note that for the pagecache, large folios can be disabled and distributions
> are actively making use of that.

You can't.  Well, you can for shmem/tmpfs, but you have to edit the
source code or disable CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE to disable it for XFS.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-08-31 12:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-10 14:29 [PATCH v5 0/5] variable-order, large folios for anonymous memory Ryan Roberts
2023-08-10 14:29 ` [PATCH v5 1/5] mm: Allow deferred splitting of arbitrary large anon folios Ryan Roberts
2023-08-10 14:29 ` [PATCH v5 2/5] mm: Non-pmd-mappable, large folios for folio_add_new_anon_rmap() Ryan Roberts
2023-08-10 14:29 ` [PATCH v5 3/5] mm: LARGE_ANON_FOLIO for improved performance Ryan Roberts
2023-08-10 17:01   ` Yu Zhao
2023-08-10 19:12     ` Ryan Roberts
2023-08-10 19:46       ` Zi Yan
2023-08-11  0:36         ` Yin, Fengwei
2023-08-11  1:04           ` Zi Yan
2023-08-11  5:34             ` Yin, Fengwei
2023-08-11 14:33               ` Zi Yan
2023-08-12  0:23                 ` Yin, Fengwei
2023-08-30 11:41                   ` Ryan Roberts
2023-08-31  0:14                     ` Yin, Fengwei
2023-08-11  0:27       ` Yin, Fengwei
2023-08-15 21:32   ` Huang, Ying
2023-08-30 12:07     ` Ryan Roberts
2023-08-31  1:40       ` Huang, Ying
2023-08-31  7:57         ` David Hildenbrand
2023-08-31  8:02           ` Yin, Fengwei
2023-08-31  8:09             ` David Hildenbrand
2023-08-31 12:29           ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2023-09-01 14:40             ` David Hildenbrand
2023-08-31 17:15           ` Yang Shi
2023-09-01 16:13             ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-09-01 17:18               ` Yang Shi
2023-09-04 10:05                 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-08-10 14:29 ` [PATCH v5 4/5] selftests/mm/cow: Generalize do_run_with_thp() helper Ryan Roberts
2023-08-10 14:29 ` [PATCH v5 5/5] selftests/mm/cow: Add large anon folio tests Ryan Roberts
2023-08-10 15:13 ` [PATCH v5 0/5] variable-order, large folios for anonymous memory Ryan Roberts
2023-08-16  8:11 ` Itaru Kitayama
2023-08-16  9:25   ` Yin, Fengwei
2023-08-16 11:57     ` Itaru Kitayama

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