> Because this is done the right way (i.e. to allocate an hugepage at > the first wp fault, and to fallback exclusively if compaction fails) > it will help much less than the 4k zero pages if the zero pages are
The main benefit is that you have a zero page with THP enabled. So it lowers the cost of having THP on (for workloads that benefit from a zero page) -Andi -- [email protected] -- Speaking for myself only -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
