Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] mm: completely disable THP bytransparent_hugepage=0

[David Rientjes]

On Wed, 22 Jun 2011, Cong Wang wrote:

> > > Introduce "transparent_hugepage=0" to totally disable THP.
> > > "transparent_hugepage=never" means setting THP to be partially
> > > disabled, we need a new way to totally disable it.
> > > 
> > 
> > Why can't you just compile it off so you never even compile
> > mm/huge_memory.c in the first place and save the space in the kernel image
> > as well?  Having the interface available to enable the feature at runtime
> > is worth the savings this patch provides, in my opinion.
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/20/506
> 

If you're proposing a patch for a specific purpose, it's appropriate to 
include that in the changelog.

But now that I know what you're proposing this for, it's an easy NACK: 
transparent_hugepage=0 has no significant benefit over 
transparent_hugepage=never for kdump because the memory savings is 
negligible.
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