Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:16:35 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] mm: completely disable THP by transparent_hugepage=0 |
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On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Amerigo Wang wrote:
> Introduce "transparent_hugepage=0" to totally disable THP. > "transparent_hugepage=never" means setting THP to be partially > disabled, we need a new way to totally disable it. >
Why can't you just compile it off so you never even compile mm/huge_memory.c in the first place and save the space in the kernel image as well? Having the interface available to enable the feature at runtime is worth the savings this patch provides, in my opinion.
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