On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 1:49 AM Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > I had a look into the THP and the HugeTLBfs code, and that is not > really easy to fix there. As I can see it now, there are a few options > to fix that, but most of them are ugly: Just do (4): disable PTI with PAE. Then we can try to make people perhaps not use !PAE very much, and warn if you have PAE disabled on a machine that supports it. As you say, there shouldn't be much of a performance impact from PAE. There is a more noticeable performance impact from HIGHMEM, not from HIGHMEM_64G, iirc. Linus