linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: completely disable THP by transparent

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Date:	Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:59:52 -0400
From:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
To:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Cc:	Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <jweiner@...hat.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: completely disable THP by
 transparent_hugepage=never

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 01:28:07PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:

[..]
> I'm not convinced that a 10kB memory reduction is
> worth the price of never being able to enable
> transparent hugepages when a system is booted with
> THP disabled...

Agreed.

Thanks
Vivek
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