Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: thp: make swap configurable

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Hi Bob,

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 09:58:06PM +0800, Bob Liu wrote:
> Currently THP do swap by default, user has no control of it.
> But some applications are swap sensitive, this patch add a boot param
> and sys file to make it configurable.

Why don't you use mlock or swapoff -a? I doubt we want to handle THP
pages differently from regular pages with regard to swap or anything
else, the value is to behave as close as possible to regular
pages. What you want you can already achieve by other means I think.

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