On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 22:31:42 +0300 Ebru Akagunduz <ebru.akagun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This patch series makes swapin readahead up to a > certain number to gain more thp performance and adds > tracepoint for khugepaged_scan_pmd, collapse_huge_page, > __collapse_huge_page_isolate. I'll merge this series for testing. Hopefully Andrea and/or Hugh will find time for a quality think about the issue before 4.3 comes around. It would be much better if we didn't have that sysfs knob - make the control automatic in some fashion. If we can't think of a way of doing that then at least let's document max_ptes_swap very carefully. Explain to our users what it does, why they should care about it, how they should set about determining (ie: measuring) its effect upon their workloads. -- 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/