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From:   Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/16] Address some perf memory/data size issues
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FWIW I think the whole patchkit could be replaced with a one liner
that disables THP for the BSS segment. I suspect that would be roughly
equivalent for memory consumption because 4K pages that are never
touched would never be allocated.

-Andi