linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] mm: make the threshold of enabling THP configurable

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Message-ID: <1308667461.11430.315.camel@nimitz>
Date:	Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:44:21 -0700
From:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] mm: make the threshold of enabling THP
 configurable

On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 16:10 +0800, 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.

This seems sane to me.  The printk probably could probably stand by
itself, btw.  But, this is a small enough patch that it's fine.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

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