On 06/12/2018 07:39 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> Pages for encrypted VMAs have to be allocated in a special way:
> we would need to propagate down not only desired NUMA node but also
> whether the page is encrypted.
> 
> It complicates not-so-trivial routine of huge page allocation in
> khugepaged even more. It also puts more pressure on page allocator:
> we cannot re-use pages allocated for encrypted VMA to collapse
> page in unencrypted one or vice versa.
> 
> I think for now it worth skipping encrypted VMAs. We can return
> to this topic later.

You're asking for this to be included, but without a major piece of THP
support.  Is THP support unimportant for this feature?

Are we really asking the x86 maintainers to merge this feature with this
restriction in place?

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