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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>,
	Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>,
	Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@redhat.com, ziy@nvidia.com,
	baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com, Liam.Howlett@oracle.com,
	ryan.roberts@arm.com, dev.jain@arm.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
	gutierrez.asier@huawei-partners.com, ast@kernel.org,
	daniel@iogearbox.net, andrii@kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] mm, bpf: BPF based THP adjustment
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 15:42:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aCyU7Q2DhPPF3Oau@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a3dfae27-2372-47b7-bc67-49a0c5be422b@lucifer.local>

On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 03:35:49PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> I agree global settings are not fine-grained enough, but 'sys admins refuse
> to do X so we want to ignore what they do' is... really not right at all.

Oh, we do that all the time,  Leave the interface around but document
it's now a no-op.  For example, file-backed memory ignores the THP
settings completely.  And mounting an NFS filesystem as "intr" has
been a no-op for over a decade.


  reply	other threads:[~2025-05-20 14:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-05-20  6:04 [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] mm, bpf: BPF based THP adjustment Yafang Shao
2025-05-20  6:04 ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/5] mm: thp: Add a new mode "bpf" Yafang Shao
2025-05-20  6:05 ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/5] mm: thp: Add hook for BPF based THP adjustment Yafang Shao
2025-05-20  6:05 ` [RFC PATCH v2 3/5] mm: thp: add struct ops " Yafang Shao
2025-05-20  6:05 ` [RFC PATCH v2 4/5] bpf: Add get_current_comm to bpf_base_func_proto Yafang Shao
2025-05-20 23:32   ` Andrii Nakryiko
2025-05-20  6:05 ` [RFC PATCH v2 5/5] selftests/bpf: Add selftest for THP adjustment Yafang Shao
2025-05-20  6:52 ` [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] mm, bpf: BPF based " Nico Pache
2025-05-20  7:25   ` Yafang Shao
2025-05-20 13:10     ` Matthew Wilcox
2025-05-20 14:08       ` Yafang Shao
2025-05-20 14:22         ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-05-20 14:32           ` Usama Arif
2025-05-20 14:35             ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-05-20 14:42               ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2025-05-20 14:56                 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-05-21  4:28                 ` Yafang Shao
2025-05-20 14:46               ` Usama Arif
2025-05-20 15:00             ` David Hildenbrand
2025-05-20  9:43 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-05-20  9:49   ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-05-20 12:06     ` Yafang Shao
2025-05-20 13:45       ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-05-20 15:54         ` David Hildenbrand
2025-05-21  4:02           ` Yafang Shao
2025-05-21  3:52         ` Yafang Shao
2025-05-20 11:59   ` Yafang Shao
2025-05-25  3:01 ` Yafang Shao
2025-05-26  7:41   ` Gutierrez Asier
2025-05-26  9:37     ` Yafang Shao
2025-05-26  8:14   ` David Hildenbrand
2025-05-26  9:37     ` Yafang Shao
2025-05-26 10:49       ` David Hildenbrand
2025-05-26 14:53         ` Liam R. Howlett
2025-05-26 15:54           ` Liam R. Howlett
2025-05-26 16:51             ` David Hildenbrand
2025-05-26 17:07               ` Liam R. Howlett
2025-05-26 17:12                 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-05-26 20:30               ` Gutierrez Asier
2025-05-26 20:37                 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-05-27  5:46         ` Yafang Shao
2025-05-27  7:57           ` David Hildenbrand
2025-05-27  8:13             ` Yafang Shao
2025-05-27  8:30               ` David Hildenbrand
2025-05-27  8:40                 ` Yafang Shao
2025-05-27  9:27                   ` David Hildenbrand
2025-05-27  9:43                     ` Yafang Shao
2025-05-27 12:19                       ` David Hildenbrand
2025-05-28  2:04                         ` Yafang Shao
2025-05-28 20:32                           ` David Hildenbrand
2025-05-26 14:32   ` Zi Yan
2025-05-27  5:53     ` Yafang Shao

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