On 20.05.25 16:42, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 03:35:49PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
I agree global settings are not fine-grained enough, but 'sys admins refuse
to do X so we want to ignore what they do' is... really not right at all.
Oh, we do that all the time, Leave the interface around but document
it's now a no-op. For example, file-backed memory ignores the THP
settings completely.
IIRC, it never honored it. Like shmem it also never honored it an
instead used it's own toggle (not sure what to think about that ...).
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Cheers,
David / dhildenb
