On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 04:00:14PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote: > An application in the VM can do mlock() or mmap(..., MAP_POPULATE, ...) and > this will essentially force acceptance of that memory. Ah, cool, that's what I meant. > But there's no sysctl or something for that. Yeah, no need. I was simply wondering whether one can relocate the acceptance work to the moment prior to starting the process so that it can run smoothly once started and doesn't cause spikes due to on-demand acceptance. At least not too many. Thx. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette