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Howlett wrote: > * David Hildenbrand [250515 13:30]: >>>> >>> >>> Did we document all this? :) >>> >>> It'd be good to be super explicit about these sorts of 'dependency chains'. >>> >> >> Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst has under "Global THP controls" >> quite some stuff about all that, yes. >> >> The whole document needs an overhaul, to clarify on the whole terminology, >> make it consistent, and better explain how the pagecache behaves etc. On my >> todo list, but I'm afraid it will be a bit of work to get it right / please >> most people. > > Yes, the whole thing is making me grumpy (more than my default state). > The more I think about it, the more I don't like the prctl approach > either... > > I more than dislike flags2... I hate it. > > but no prctl, no cgroups, no bpf.. what is left? A new policy groups > thing? No, not that either, please. > > To state the obvious, none of this is transparent. New to the "transparent" huge page world where not that much is "transparent"!? It's completely in-transparent to most people how it works :D Yeah, that's why I suggested to piggyback on VM_HUGEPAGE/VM_NOHUGEPAGE. Something we already have and that we will probably have for a long time ... :) -- Cheers, David / dhildenb