On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 06:35:14AM +0000, Fan, Shawn wrote: > >> My original patch for this just skipped the GHES->offline process > >> for huge pages. But I wasn't aware of the sysctl control. That provides > >> a better solution. > > > > Tony, does that mean you're OK with using the existing sysctl interface? If > > so, I'll just send a separate patch to update the sysfs-memory-page-offline > > documentation and drop the rest. > > Kyle, > > It depends on which camp the external customer that reported this > falls into: > > 1) "I'm OK disabling all soft offline requests". > > or the: > > 2) "I'd like 4K pages to still go offline if the BIOS asks, just not any huge > pages". > > Shawn: Can you please find out? > > > -> Prefer the 2nd option, "4K pages still go offline if the BIOS asks, just > not any huge pages."
OK, thank you. Does that mean they want to avoid offlining transparent huge pages as well? Thanks, Kyle Meyer
