linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: introduce MADV_CLR

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Date:   Wed, 31 May 2017 14:05:56 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...tuozzo.com>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: introduce MADV_CLR_HUGEPAGE

On Wed 31-05-17 12:08:45, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 12:39:30PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> > Also do you expect somebody else would use new madvise? What would be the
> > usecase?
> 
> I can think of an application that wants to keep 4K pages to save physical
> memory for certain phase, e.g. until these pages are populated with very
> few data. After the memory usage increases, the application may wish to
> stop preventing khugepged from merging these pages, but it does not have
> strong inclination to force use of huge pages.

Well, is actually anybody going to do that?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs