[CentOS] Transparent HugePages question

Wed Aug 24 19:25:28 UTC 2016
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Laurentiu Soica wrote:
> So basically you're saying that this THP feature is broken for CentOS 7 ?
> The feature is enabled by default. Is there a thread opened on this issue
> ?

I'm not sure it's broken, per se, but rather that something that I don't
know may cause it to do this. It was certainly the case on 6.

       mark


>
> În mie., 24 aug. 2016 la 18:13, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> a scris:
>
>> Laurentiu Soica wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I have a CentOS 7 installation on baremetal with 2 CPUs, 10 cores each
>> and
>> > HT enabled, 128 GB RAM.
>> >
>> > The system has transparent hugetables enabled.
>> <snip>
>> > So it turns out that even is I have the THP enabled the pages still
>> have
>> a
>> > size of 4K .
>> >
>> > Is there any extra setup in order to get 2MB pages ?
>> >
>> Be aware that with transparent huge pages enabled - I'm trying to
>> remember
>> what error you might get - it may be the "CPU blocked for x 120
>> seconds",
>> as it deals with the page.
>>
>>         mark, back from vacation
>>
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