Re: [PATCH 00/27] Latest numa/core release, v16

[Rik van Riel]

On 11/19/2012 06:00 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:36:04PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Ok.
> > >
> > > In response to one of your later questions, I found that I had
> > > in fact disabled THP without properly reporting it. [...]
> >
> > Hugepages is a must for most forms of NUMA/HPC.
>
> Requiring huge pages to avoid a regression is a mistake.

Not all architectures support THP.  Not all workloads will end up
using THP effectively.

Mel, would you have numa/core profiles from !THP runs, so we can
find out the cause of the regression?

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