On Wed, 06 Mar 2019 14:47:33 +0530
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dan Williams <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 1:40 AM Oliver <[email protected]> wrote:  
> >>
> >> On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 7:35 PM Aneesh Kumar K.V
> >> <[email protected]> wrote:  
 
> Also even if the user decided to not use THP, by
> echo "never" > transparent_hugepage/enabled , we should continue to map
> dax fault using huge page on platforms that can support huge pages.

Is this a good idea?

This knob is there for a reason. In some situations having huge pages
can severely impact performance of the system (due to host-guest
interaction or whatever) and the ability to really turn off all THP
would be important in those cases, right?

Thanks

Michal

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