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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 35/40] autonuma: boost khugepaged scanning rate
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On 06/28/2012 08:56 AM, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Until THP native migration is implemented it's safer to boost
> khugepaged scanning rate because all memory migration are splitting
> the hugepages. So the regular rate of scanning becomes too low when
> lots of memory is migrated.

Not too fond of such a hack, but I guess it is ok for development...

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