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charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 12.09.25 17:44, Kiryl Shutsemau wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 04:39:02PM +0100, Kiryl Shutsemau wrote: >>> Shower thought: it might be in these cases especially where the FreeBSD >>> reservation system comes in handy - best effort allocating a THP, but not >>> actually mapping it as such until you really _know_ it is hot - and until >>> then, memory reclaim can just break your THP down if it really needs to. >> >> This is just silly. All downsides without benefit until maybe later. And >> for short-lived processes the "later" never comes. > > The right way out is to get better info on access pattern from hardware. > For instance, if we move access bit out of page table entry and make it > independent of the actually mapping size that would give us much better > view on what actually is going on. We discussed this a couple of times in the past, the problem is that it does not help anybody really if all but a handful piece of hardware provides such a features. Long long long term I agree, short term we cannot really build core infrastructure around any of that. -- Cheers David / dhildenb