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You mean that a given vma could now have two mempolicies, where one would be for hugepages only? That's likely much more easy to suggest than to implement, with all uapi consequences... > benefit is that we could replace the thp "defrag" mode default by setting > this as part of default_policy. Right now, MADV_HUGEPAGE users are > concerned about (1) getting thp when system-wide it is not default and (2) > additional fault latency when direct compaction is not default. They are > not anticipating the degradation of remote access latency, so overloading > the meaning of the mode is probably not a good idea. >