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SubjectRe: [PATCH] register MADV_HUGEPAGE
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 07:46:42PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
>
> In order to allow early shipping transparent hugepage feature enabled
> only inside MADV_HUGEPAGE and not globally to diminish the risk of
> unexpected performance regressions on non-hypervisor related usages
> I'd need this little define registered. This is also to avoid things
> like this:

NACK, usespace ABIs only go in when features are added. There's a more
than large enough chance that it will change for one reason or another.

And while transparent hugepages are a good feature to add, it's still in
a far to early stage to go on with it.



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