Re: [PATCH v5 12/12] Documentation: mm: update the admin guide for mTHP collapse

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On Mon, 28 Apr 2025, Nico Pache wrote:

>  THP can be enabled system wide or restricted to certain tasks or even
>  memory ranges inside task's address space. Unless THP is completely
>  disabled, there is ``khugepaged`` daemon that scans memory and
> -collapses sequences of basic pages into PMD-sized huge pages.
> +collapses sequences of basic pages into huge pages.

huge pages usually have a fixed size like 2M and are tied to the page
table levels.

Would it not be advisable to use a different term here like "large folio"
or "mTHP sized folio" or something like that?





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