Re: [RFC v2 0/5] mm: introduce THP deferred setting

From: Usama Arif
Date: Mon Feb 17 2025 - 09:54:04 EST




On 11/02/2025 00:40, Nico Pache wrote:
> This series is a follow-up to [1], which adds mTHP support to khugepaged.
> mTHP khugepaged support was necessary for the global="defer" and
> mTHP="inherit" case (and others) to make sense.
>

Hi Nico,

Thanks for the patches!

Why is mTHP khugepaged a prerequisite for THP=defer?
THP=defer applies to PMD hugepages as well, so they should be independent.