On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 11:54:31AM -0400, Rafael Aquini wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 04:37:17PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 06:29:19PM -0400, Rafael Aquini wrote: > > > > In discussion with other MM developers around how idle page tracking > > > > should be fixed for transparent huge pages, several expressed the opinion > > > > that it should be removed as it is inefficient at accomplishing the job > > > > that it is supposed to, and we have better mechanisms (eg uffd) for > > > > accomplishing the same goals these days. > > > > > > I didn't follow the aforementioned discussion, so it would be nice to > > > have a little bit more detailed explanation on both points raised here > > > (issues with THP and innefficiency). There are some Red Hat customers > > > and partners that do rely on the feature, thus the interest. Thanks. > > > > It would be nice if you asked this on the original thread (which you're > > cc'd on) instead of starting a new thread. > > Sorry about that, but for some weird reason only Andrew's email made its way > into my inbox. You should probably file a bug with your IT department then. There are a dozen emails cc'ing you in this thread, some from people in your own company: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210612000714.775825-1-willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
