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Date:   Wed, 17 Feb 2021 08:57:09 +0100
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: introduce vm.sacrifice_hugepage_on_oom
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On Tue 16-02-21 14:30:15, Mike Kravetz wrote:
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> However, this is an 'opt in' feature.  So, I would not expect anyone who
> carefully plans the size of their hugetlb pool to enable such a feature.
> If there is a use case where hugetlb pages are used in a non-essential
> application, this might be of use.

I would really like to hear about the specific usecase. Because it
smells more like a misconfiguration. What would be non-essential hugetlb
pages? This is not a resource to be pre-allocated just in case, right?

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs