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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu and transparent huge pages
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:51:12 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <502B9B40.6090307@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <502B99D0.8010808@msgid.tls.msk.ru>

On 08/15/2012 03:45 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 
> But apparently, THP does not work still, even with 2Mb
> alignment: when running a guest, AnonHugePages in
> /proc/meminfo stays at 0 - either in kvm mode or in tcg
> mode.  Any idea why?  What else is needed for THP to work?

It does for me:

AnonHugePages:    368640 kB

Note the patch you reference doesn't impact thp, just kvm's ability to
propagate them to the shadow page table.

> 
> This is quite a frequent question in #kvm IRC channel,
> and I always suggested using -mem-path for this,  but
> I'm curios why it doesn't work automatically when it
> probably should?
> 

Please provide extra info, like the setting of
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled.


-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-15 12:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-15 12:45 [Qemu-devel] qemu and transparent huge pages Michael Tokarev
2012-08-15 12:51 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2012-08-15 14:22   ` Michael Tokarev
2012-08-15 14:26     ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-15 15:03       ` Michael Tokarev
2012-08-15 15:06         ` Michael Tokarev
2012-09-16 11:19         ` Michael Tokarev
2012-11-12 15:18           ` Michael Tokarev
2012-11-13 14:30             ` Aurelien Jarno
2012-11-13 16:38               ` Michael Tokarev
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-08-15 12:40 Michael Tokarev

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