From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail202.messagelabs.com (mail202.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.227]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0B6896B00C4 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 11:30:41 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [PATCH 62 of 66] disable transparent hugepages by default on small systems Message-Id: <5791385d8111de4b5143.1288798117@v2.random> In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:28:37 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: linux-mm@kvack.org, Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , Adam Litke , Avi Kivity , Hugh Dickins , Rik van Riel , Mel Gorman , Dave Hansen , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Ingo Molnar , Mike Travis , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Christoph Lameter , Chris Wright , bpicco@redhat.com, KOSAKI Motohiro , Balbir Singh , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Peter Zijlstra , Johannes Weiner , Daisuke Nishimura , Chris Mason , Borislav Petkov List-ID: From: Rik van Riel On small systems, the extra memory used by the anti-fragmentation memory reserve and simply because huge pages are smaller than large pages can easily outweigh the benefits of less TLB misses. In case of the crashdump kernel, OOMs have been observed due to the anti-fragmentation memory reserve taking up a large fraction of the crashdump image. This patch disables transparent hugepages on systems with less than 1GB of RAM, but the hugepage subsystem is fully initialized so administrators can enable THP through /sys if desired. v2: reduce the limit to 512MB Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Acked-by: Avi Kiviti Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli --- diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -527,6 +527,14 @@ static int __init hugepage_init(void) goto out; } + /* + * By default disable transparent hugepages on smaller systems, + * where the extra memory used could hurt more than TLB overhead + * is likely to save. The admin can still enable it through /sys. + */ + if (totalram_pages < (512 << (20 - PAGE_SHIFT))) + transparent_hugepage_flags = 0; + start_khugepaged(); set_recommended_min_free_kbytes(); -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom policy in Canada: sign http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org