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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:22:45 +0000 From: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie> To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>, Adam Litke <agl@...ibm.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Mike Travis <travis@....com>, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>, Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>, bpicco@...hat.com, Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>, Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> Subject: Re: [PATCH 55 of 66] select CONFIG_COMPACTION if TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE enabled On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 10:11:45PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 03:20:33PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > > > From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com> > > > > > > With transparent hugepage support we need compaction for the "defrag" sysfs > > > controls to be effective. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com> > > > --- > > > > > > diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig > > > --- a/mm/Kconfig > > > +++ b/mm/Kconfig > > > @@ -305,6 +305,7 @@ config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS > > > config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE > > > bool "Transparent Hugepage Support" > > > depends on X86 && MMU > > > + select COMPACTION > > > help > > > Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and > > > huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible. > > > > I dislike this. THP and compaction are completely orthogonal. I think > > you are talking only your performance recommendation. I mean I dislike > > Kconfig 'select' hell and I hope every developers try to avoid it as > > far as possible. > > At the moment THP hangs the system if COMPACTION isn't selected Just to confirm - by hang, you mean grinds to a slow pace as opposed to coming to a complete stop and having to restart? If so then Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie> > (please try yourself if you don't believe), as without COMPACTION > lumpy reclaim wouldn't be entirely disabled. So at the moment it's not > orthogonal. When lumpy will be removed from the VM (like I tried > multiple times to achieve) I can remove the select COMPACTION in > theory, but then 99% of THP users would be still doing a mistake in > disabling compaction, even if the mistake won't return in fatal > runtime but just slightly degraded performance. > -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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