Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/26] sched/numa | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:39:26 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 12:12 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > - doesn't work well with large pages > > That's for someone who cares about large pages to sort, isn't it? Also, > I thought you virt people only used THP anyway, and those work just fine > (they get broken down, and presumably something will build them back up > on the other side).
Note that all it would take is to make THP swap work. That on its own might make sense too since writing a 2M stip of data is probably as fast as a single 4K page on many of the rotating rust things. No idea on SSD, but those things are typically fast either way.
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