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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 2/4] mm: make the threshold of enabling THP configurable
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Amerigo Wang wrote:

> Don't hard-code 512M as the threshold in kernel, make it configruable,
> and set 512M by default.
>
> And print info when THP is disabled automatically on small systems.
>
> V2: Add more description in help messages, correct some typos,
> print the mini threshold too.
>

I like the printk that notifies users why THP was disabled because it
could potentially be a source of confusion (and fixing the existing typos
in hugepage_init() would also be good). However, I disagree that we need
to have this as a config option: you either want the feature for your
systems or you don't. Perhaps add a "transparent_hugepage=force" option
that will act as "always" but also force it to be enabled in all
scenarios, even without X86_FEATURE_PSE, that will override all the logic
that thinks it knows better?


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