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Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2024 16:38:48 +0100
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm/khugepaged: skip copying lazyfree pages on
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On Fri 02-02-24 22:52:49, Lance Yang wrote:
> How about blocking khugepaged from
> collapsing lazyfree pages? This way,
> is it not better to keep the semantics
> of MADV_FREE?

I do not see any reason why. And you are not providing any
actual reasoning either. Unless you have a very specific
example in mind I do not think we want to change the current
behavior.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs