linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 00/13] khugepaged: mTHP support

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Message-Id: <20250819145530.243e02184b743eb9ec506856@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 14:55:30 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Nico Pache <npache@...hat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 00/13] khugepaged: mTHP support

On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 07:41:52 -0600 Nico Pache <npache@...hat.com> wrote:

> The following series provides khugepaged with the capability to collapse
> anonymous memory regions to mTHPs.
> 
> ...
>
> - I created a test script that I used to push khugepaged to its limits
>    while monitoring a number of stats and tracepoints. The code is
>    available here[1] (Run in legacy mode for these changes and set mthp
>    sizes to inherit)

Could this be turned into something in tools/testing/selftests/mm/?

> V10 Changes:

I'll add this to mm-new, thanks.  I'll suppress the usual emails.