On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:10:45 +0100 aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Add khugepaged to relocate fragmented pages into hugepages if new hugepages > become available. (this is indipendent of the defrag logic that will have to > make new hugepages available) What does this mean? What are the user-visible effects if (when) this kernel thread fails to keep up? Generally it seems like a bad idea to do this sort of thing asynchronously. Because it reduces repeatability across runs and across machines - system behaviour becomes more dependent on the size of the machine and the amount of activity in unrelated jobs? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>