Alex Thorlton wrote: > This patch implements functionality to allow processes to disable the use of > transparent hugepages through the prctl syscall. > > We've determined that some jobs perform significantly better with thp > disabled, > and we need a way to control thp on a per-process basis, without relying on > madvise.
What kind of workloads are you talking about? What's wrong with madvise? Could you elaborate? And I think thp_disabled should be reset to 0 on exec. -- Kirill A. Shutemov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
