Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755371Ab1FTQ6z (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:58:55 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:35383 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755332Ab1FTQ6v (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:58:51 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:58:45 +0100 From: Mel Gorman To: Amerigo Wang Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Andrea Arcangeli , Rik van Riel , Johannes Weiner , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: completely disable THP by transparent_hugepage=never Message-ID: <20110620165844.GA9396@suse.de> References: <1308587683-2555-1-git-send-email-amwang@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1308587683-2555-1-git-send-email-amwang@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 578 Lines: 17 On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:34:28AM +0800, Amerigo Wang wrote: > transparent_hugepage=never should mean to disable THP completely, > otherwise we don't have a way to disable THP completely. > The design is broken. > I don't get why it's broken. Why would the user be prevented from enabling it at runtime? -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/