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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: Do not stall in synchronous compaction for THP allocations
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 03:37:32PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Nov 2011, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > > This patch once again prevents sync migration for transparent
> > > hugepage allocations as it is preferable to fail a THP allocation
> > > than stall.
> >
> > Who said? ;) Presumably some people would prefer to get lots of
> > huge pages for their 1000-hour compute job, and waiting a bit to get
> > those pages is acceptable.
> >
>
> Indeed. It seems like the behavior would better be controlled with
> /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag which is set aside specifically
> to control defragmentation for transparent hugepages and for that
> synchronous compaction should certainly apply.

With khugepaged in place, it's adding a tunable that is unnecessary and
will not be used. Even if such a tuneable was created, the default
behaviour should be "do not stall".

--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs


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