From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] Add per-process flag to control thp
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 22:26:21 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874nawrwsq.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130802205735.GS26476@sgi.com>
Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> writes:
> This patch implements functionality to allow processes to disable the use of
> transparent hugepages through the prctl syscall.
>
> We've determined that some jobs perform significantly better with thp disabled,
> and we needed a way to control thp on a per-process basis, without relying on
> madvise.
>
Is that because of hugepage alloc on fault ? I understand, that could be
a real issue when applications touch one byte per hugepage. In that case
we would endup allocating more memory than the application footprint. I have
observed that system almost hang and start hitting OOM when run with THP
enabled. Now we could possibly handle that by not allowing alloc on fault and
always depend on coallpse hugepage to instantiate a hugepage ?
-aneesh
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-11 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-02 20:57 [PATCHv2] Add per-process flag to control thp Alex Thorlton
2013-08-03 17:01 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-05 14:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-08-05 15:12 ` Alex Thorlton
2013-08-05 15:05 ` Alex Thorlton
2013-08-05 15:09 ` Rik van Riel
2013-08-05 23:03 ` Andrew Morton
2013-08-06 15:08 ` Alex Thorlton
2013-08-06 16:04 ` Rik van Riel
2013-08-08 3:49 ` David Rientjes
2013-08-11 16:56 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
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