On 11/19/25 6:13 PM, David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) wrote:
On 18.11.25 12:53, Qi Zheng wrote:


On 11/18/25 12:53 AM, David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) wrote:
On 14.11.25 12:11, Qi Zheng wrote:
From: Qi Zheng <[email protected]>

Hi all,

This series aims to enable PT_RECLAIM on all 64-bit architectures.

On a 64-bit system, madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) may cause a large number of
empty PTE
page table pages (such as 100GB+). To resolve this problem, we need to
enable
PT_RECLAIM, which depends on MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE.


Makes sense!

Therefore, this series first enables MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE on all
64-bit
architectures, and finally makes PT_RECLAIM depend on
MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
&& 64BIT. This way, PT_RECLAIM can be enabled by default on all 64-bit
architectures.

Could we then even go ahead and stop making PT_RECLAIM user-selectable?

OK, will change to:

Was more of a question: is there any scenario where we ran so far into issues with it?

No, I haven't received any reports of related issues, either within the
company or in the community.




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