Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm/khugepaged: skip copying lazyfree pages on collapse

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Fri Feb 02 2024 - 10:27:00 EST


On 02.02.24 15:52, Lance Yang wrote:
How about blocking khugepaged from
collapsing lazyfree pages? This way,
is it not better to keep the semantics
of MADV_FREE?

What do you think?

Why do we even want to change any behavior here? A lot of things "might cause confusion among users". Even worse, a lot of things do cause confusion ;)

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Cheers,

David / dhildenb