Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/26] sched/numa

Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-19T11:40:06Z

On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 12:12 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > - doesn't work well with large pages
>
> That's for someone who cares about large pages to sort, isn't it? Also,
> I thought you virt people only used THP anyway, and those work just fine
> (they get broken down, and presumably something will build them back up
> on the other side).

Note that all it would take is to make THP swap work. That on its own
might make sense too since writing a 2M stip of data is probably as fast
as a single 4K page on many of the rotating rust things. No idea on SSD,
but those things are typically fast either way.