On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 07:20:26PM +1100, Alistair Popple wrote: > I don't like "large anon folios" because it seems to confuse collegaues > when explaining that large anon folios are actually smaller than the > existing Hugetlb/THP size. I suspect this is because they already assume > large folios are used for THP. I guess this wouldn't be an issue if > everyone assumed THP was implemented with huge folios, but that doesn't > seem to be the case for me at least. Likely because the default THP size > is often 2MB, which is hardly huge. I find your colleagues confusing. To me, "huge" seems bigger than "large". I don't seem to be the only one: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-among-big-large-huge-enormous-and-giant (for example) Perhaps the problem is that people have turned "THP" into a thing in its own right. So they feel comfortable talking about small THP, medium THP and large THP and ignoring that there's already a "huge" embedded in THP. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to put my PIN number into the ATM machine.
