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Howlett wrote: > * Liam R. Howlett [250526 10:54]: >> * David Hildenbrand [250526 06:49]: >>> On 26.05.25 11:37, Yafang Shao wrote: >>>> On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM David Hildenbrand wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>> >>>>>> Let’s summarize the current state of the discussion and identify how >>>>>> to move forward. >>>>>> >>>>>> - Global-Only Control is Not Viable >>>>>> We all seem to agree that a global-only control for THP is unwise. In >>>>>> practice, some workloads benefit from THP while others do not, so a >>>>>> one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t work. >>>>>> >>>>>> - Should We Use "Always" or "Madvise"? >>>>>> I suspect no one would choose 'always' in its current state. ;) >>>>> >>>>> IIRC, RHEL9 has the default set to "always" for a long time. >>>> >>>> good to know. >>>> >>>>> >>>>> I guess it really depends on how different the workloads are that you >>>>> are running on the same machine. >>>> >>>> Correct. If we want to enable THP for specific workloads without >>>> modifying the kernel, we must isolate them on dedicated servers. >>>> However, this approach wastes resources and is not an acceptable >>>> solution. >>>> >>>>> >>>>> > Both Lorenzo and David propose relying on the madvise mode. However,> >>>>> since madvise is an unprivileged userspace mechanism, any user can >>>>>> freely adjust their THP policy. This makes fine-grained control >>>>>> impossible without breaking userspace compatibility—an undesirable >>>>>> tradeoff. >>>>> >>>>> If required, we could look into a "sealing" mechanism, that would >>>>> essentially lock modification attempts performed by the process (i.e., >>>>> MADV_HUGEPAGE). >>>> >>>> If we don’t introduce a new THP mode and instead rely solely on >>>> madvise, the "sealing" mechanism could either violate the intended >>>> semantics of madvise(), or simply break madvise() entirely, right? >>> >>> We would have to be a bit careful, yes. >>> >>> Errors from MADV_HUGEPAGE/MADV_NOHUGEPAGE are often ignored, because these >>> options also fail with -EINVAL on kernels without THP support. >>> >>> Ignoring MADV_NOHUGEPAGE can be problematic with userfaultfd. >>> >>> What you likely really want to do is seal when you configured >>> MADV_NOHUGEPAGE to be the default, and fail MADV_HUGEPAGE later. > > I am also not entirely sure how sealing a non-existing vma would work. > We'd have to seal the default flags, but sealing is one way and this > surely shouldn't be one way? You probably have mseal() in mind. Just like we wouldn't be using madvise(), we also wouldn't be using mseal(). It could be a simple mctrl()/whatever option/flag to set the default and no longer allow changing the default and per-VMA flags, unless CAP_SYS_ADMIN or sth like that. -- Cheers, David / dhildenb