On Mon, 9 Jan 2017, David Rientjes wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jan 2017, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > > > > Any suggestions for a better name for "background" are more than welcome. > > > > > > > Why not just "madvise+defer"? > > > > Seeing no other activity regarding this issue (omg!), I'll wait a day or > so to see if there are any objections to "madvise+defer" or suggestions > that may be better and repost.
I get very confused by the /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag versus enabled flags, and this may be a terrible, even more confusing, idea: but I've been surprised and sad to see defrag with a "defer" option, but poor enabled without one; and it has crossed my mind that perhaps the peculiar "madvise+defer" syntax in defrag might rather be handled by "madvise" in defrag with "defer" in enabled? Or something like that: 4 x 4 possibilities instead of 5 x 3. Please be gentle with me, Hugh
