From: David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>
To: "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>, Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
"Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@kernel.org>,
Nimrod Oren <noren@nvidia.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
Nico Pache <nico.pache@linux.dev>,
Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>, Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>,
Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>, Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>,
Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>, Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
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Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Nirmoy Das <nirmoyd@nvidia.com>,
Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@nvidia.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm: remove min_free_kbytes adjustment for THP
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2026 11:38:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260909113836.6cbe8d17@pumpkin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aqEUdmYnnQQRC8yl@gremlin>
On Wed, 9 Sep 2026 09:11:04 +0100
"Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 08, 2026 at 03:30:30PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 08, 2026 at 08:24:38AM -0400, Zi Yan wrote:
> > > On Tue Sep 8, 2026 at 7:54 AM EDT, Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) wrote:
> > > > Given neither of the patchset versions achieved universal acceptance, could
> > > > we try just disabling all the automatic (re)calculations of min_free_kbytes
> > > > the first moment the sysctl gets adjusted from userspace?
> > >
> > > Sounds good to me. Johannes, WDYT?
> >
> > +1 That sounds good to me as well.
>
> Me also! :>)
You might want some method of restoring the default behaviour.
Maybe setting to 0 can be used (if that is just silly).
David
>
> --
> Cheers, Lorenzo
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-09 10:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-01 19:01 [PATCH v3] mm: remove min_free_kbytes adjustment for THP Nimrod Oren
2026-09-01 19:12 ` Michal Hocko
2026-09-01 20:01 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-01 20:44 ` Johannes Weiner
2026-09-01 21:09 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-01 22:09 ` Johannes Weiner
2026-09-02 1:49 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-02 13:02 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-02 16:04 ` Johannes Weiner
2026-09-02 16:47 ` Usama Arif
2026-09-02 17:02 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-02 17:24 ` Usama Arif
2026-09-02 17:13 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-03 18:58 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-04 15:20 ` Johannes Weiner
2026-09-08 10:40 ` Barry Song
2026-09-02 12:07 ` Nirmoy Das
2026-09-02 13:46 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-02 16:23 ` Johannes Weiner
2026-09-02 17:00 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-02 18:37 ` Johannes Weiner
2026-09-03 15:46 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-04 15:43 ` Johannes Weiner
2026-09-04 16:46 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-03 12:52 ` Michal Hocko
2026-09-02 16:41 ` Usama Arif
2026-09-08 11:54 ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-09-08 12:24 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-08 19:30 ` Johannes Weiner
2026-09-09 8:11 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-09 10:38 ` David Laight [this message]
2026-09-09 11:18 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-09 12:27 ` David Laight
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