Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm/dax: Don't enable huge dax mapping by default

Aneesh Kumar K.V
2019-03-06T12:46:03Z

On 3/6/19 5:14 PM, Michal Suchánek wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Mar 2019 14:47:33 +0530
> "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 1:40 AM Oliver <oohall@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 7:35 PM Aneesh Kumar K.V
>>>> <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> Also even if the user decided to not use THP, by
>> echo "never" > transparent_hugepage/enabled , we should continue to map
>> dax fault using huge page on platforms that can support huge pages.
>
> Is this a good idea?
>
> This knob is there for a reason. In some situations having huge pages
> can severely impact performance of the system (due to host-guest
> interaction or whatever) and the ability to really turn off all THP
> would be important in those cases, right?
>

My understanding was that is not true for dax pages? These are not
regular memory that got allocated. They are allocated out of /dev/dax/
or /dev/pmem*. Do we have a reason not to use hugepages for mapping
pages in that case?

-aneesh