Re: [PATCH v12 8/8] mm: Don't split THP page when syscall is called

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Thu Jul 17 2014 - 07:31:13 EST


On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 03:22:29PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> We don't need to split THP page when MADV_FREE syscall is
> called. It could be done when VM decide really frees it so
> we could avoid unnecessary THP split.
>
> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>

I would like to free THP without splitting. But good enough for now.

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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