On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 01:32:01PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
> @@ -499,6 +499,19 @@ config FRONTSWAP
>
> If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap.
>
> +config ARCH_USES_THP_SWAP_CLUSTER
> + bool
> + default n
This is fine.
> +config THP_SWAP_CLUSTER
> + bool
> + depends on SWAP && TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_USES_THP_SWAP_CLUSTER
> + default y
> + help
> + Use one swap cluster to hold the contents of the THP
> + (Transparent Huge Page) swapped out. The size of the swap
> + cluster will be same as that of THP.
But this is a super weird thing to ask the user. How would they know
what to say, if we don't know? I don't think this should be a config
knob at all. Merge the two config items into a simple
config THP_SWAP_CLUSTER
bool
default n
and let the archs with reasonable THP sizes select it.
