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@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS config COMPACTION bool "Allow for memory compaction" select MIGRATION - depends on EXPERIMENTAL && HUGETLB_PAGE && MMU + depends on MMU help Allows the compaction of memory for the allocation of huge pages. @@ -302,6 +302,44 @@ config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. +config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE + bool "Transparent Hugepage Support" + depends on X86 && MMU + select COMPACTION + help + Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and + huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible. + This feature can improve computing performance to certain + applications by speeding up page faults during memory + allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding + up the pagetable walking. + + If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N. + +choice + prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults" + depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE + default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS + help + Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support. + + config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS + bool "always" + help + Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the + memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed + benefit but it will work automatically for all applications. + + config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE + bool "madvise" + help + Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a + performance improvement benefit to the applications using + madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the + memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed + benefit. +endchoice + # # UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator # |
