From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail138.messagelabs.com (mail138.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9116D6B01EE for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:12:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4BC30001.2040205@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:12:01 +0300 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 00 of 41] Transparent Hugepage Support #17 References: <4BC0CFF4.5000207@redhat.com> <20100410194751.GA23751@elte.hu> <4BC0DE84.3090305@redhat.com> <20100411104608.GA12828@elte.hu> <4BC1B2CA.8050208@redhat.com> <20100411120800.GC10952@elte.hu> <20100412060931.GP5683@laptop> <20100412070811.GD5656@random.random> <20100412072144.GS5683@laptop> <20100412080626.GG5656@random.random> <20100412104451.GO25756@csn.ul.ie> In-Reply-To: <20100412104451.GO25756@csn.ul.ie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Mel Gorman Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Nick Piggin , Ingo Molnar , Mike Galbraith , Jason Garrett-Glaser , Linus Torvalds , Pekka Enberg , Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, Marcelo Tosatti , Adam Litke , Izik Eidus , Hugh Dickins , Rik van Riel , Dave Hansen , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Mike Travis , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Christoph Lameter , Chris Wright , bpicco@redhat.com, KOSAKI Motohiro , Balbir Singh , Arnd Bergmann , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Peter Zijlstra , Johannes Weiner , Daisuke Nishimura List-ID: On 04/12/2010 01:44 PM, Mel Gorman wrote: > I don't see such a thing happening. Huge pages on hugetlbfs do not swap and > would be like calling mlock aggressively. > Yes, we keep talking about defragmentation, but the nice thing about transparent huge pages is the ability to fragment when needed. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org