On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 03:25:07PM +0800, Yafang Shao wrote: > > The challenge we face is that our system administration team doesn't > > permit enabling THP globally in production by setting it to "madvise" > > or "always". As a result, we can only experiment with your feature on > > our test servers at this stage. > > That's a you problem. perhaps. > You need to figure out how to influence your > sysadmin team to change their mind; whether it's by talking to their > superiors or persuading them directly. I believe that "practicing" matters more than "talking" or "persuading". I’m surprised your suggestion relies on "talking" ;-) If I understand correctly, we all agree that "talk is cheap", right? > It's not a justification for why > upstream should take this patch. I believe Johannes has clearly explained the challenges the community is currently facing [0]. [0]. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250430174521.GC2020@xxxxxxxxxxx/ -- Regards Yafang
