Re: [patch] mm, thp: add new background defrag option

[Michal Hocko]

On Mon 09-01-17 18:19:56, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jan 2017, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> 
> > > Any suggestions for a better name for "background" are more than welcome.  
> > 
> > Why not just "madvise+defer"?
> > 
> 
> Seeing no other activity regarding this issue (omg!), I'll wait a day or 
> so to see if there are any objections to "madvise+defer" or suggestions 
> that may be better and repost.

madvise+defer is much better than background. So if the combined (flag
like approach) is too risky then I am OK with that.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs