On 29.04.25 18:38, Christoph Lameter (Ampere) wrote:
On Mon, 28 Apr 2025, Nico Pache wrote:
THP can be enabled system wide or restricted to certain tasks or even
memory ranges inside task's address space. Unless THP is completely
disabled, there is ``khugepaged`` daemon that scans memory and
-collapses sequences of basic pages into PMD-sized huge pages.
+collapses sequences of basic pages into huge pages.
huge pages usually have a fixed size like 2M and are tied to the page
table levels.
Would it not be advisable to use a different term here like "large folio"
or "mTHP sized folio" or something like that?
"Traditional THPs or mTHPs (both, currently represented as "large
folios" in the kernel).
--
Cheers,
David / dhildenb
