[pve-devel] disabling transparent hugepage by default like kernel 2.6.32 ?

[Daniel Hunsaker]

What about setting CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS = N?  As I understand
it, "not set" means "use the default setting the kernel devs think is the
most sane for normal use", which in this case would be Y...

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015, 06:58 Alexandre DERUMIER <aderumier at odiso.com> wrote:

> >>I could set it in kernel config, for example:
> >>
> >>CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE=y
> >>
> >>would that help?
>
> Well, this is like  "echo madvise >
> /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled"
>
> But I don't see how to set never.
>
> maybe
>
> # CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS is not set
> # CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE is not set
>
>
> But I don't known how to unset CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS in the
> new pve-kernel package makefile ?
>
>
> I have tried to add
>
> PVE_CONFIG_OPTS= \
> ..
> -d CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS \
> ..
>
> but it don't seem to work, I still have
> CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS=Y in .config
>
> Any idea ?
>
>
>
> ----- Mail original -----
> De: "dietmar" <dietmar at proxmox.com>
> À: "aderumier" <aderumier at odiso.com>, "pve-devel" <
> pve-devel at pve.proxmox.com>
> Envoyé: Mercredi 9 Septembre 2015 06:33:05
> Objet: Re: [pve-devel] disabling transparent hugepage by default like
> kernel 2.6.32 ?
>
> > I think it's better to disable it by default.
> >
> > echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled.
> >
> > (I don't known what is the best way to disable it by default)
>
> I could set it in kernel config, for example:
>
> CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE=y
>
> would that help?
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