Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] exec: silence hugetlbfs warning under qtest

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 03:30:23PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 24/11/2015 15:25, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > I'm worried that things go slow and people don't have a way to find out
> > why, and documentation isn't the first place people look for when facing
> > a performance issue.
> > 
> > At the moment we call MADV_HUGEPAGE unconditionally and unfortunately
> > there's no way to report it's not having the intended effect.
> > 
> > Maybe we want a "don't enable hugepages" flag.
> > That could also have the effect of suppressing the warnings.
> 
> THP is anyway slower than hugetlbfs.  If people really want performance,
> they need to use hugetlbfs.  For everything else I'd be surprised if
> they even notice.
> 
> Paolo

If you want to post and merge a patch removing this warning completely,
and revert the original one, that's fine with me.

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