On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 07:01:02PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > On 08/02, 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 needed a way to control thp on a per-process basis, without relying > > on > > madvise. > > Well, I think the changelog should explain why madvise() is bad.
It would be good to describe which jobs and why thp cannot be fixed for these. -- 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/
