On 26.08.25 09:19, Yafang Shao wrote:

Background
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Our production servers consistently configure THP to "never" due to
historical incidents caused by its behavior. Key issues include:
- Increased Memory Consumption
   THP significantly raises overall memory usage, reducing available memory
   for workloads.

- Latency Spikes
   Random latency spikes occur due to frequent memory compaction triggered
   by THP.

- Lack of Fine-Grained Control
   THP tuning is globally configured, making it unsuitable for containerized
   environments. When multiple workloads share a host, enabling THP without
   per-workload control leads to unpredictable behavior.

Due to these issues, administrators avoid switching to madvise or always
modes—unless per-workload THP control is implemented.

To address this, we propose BPF-based THP policy for flexible adjustment.
Additionally, as David mentioned [0], this mechanism can also serve as a
policy prototyping tool (test policies via BPF before upstreaming them).

There is a lot going on and most reviewers (including me) are fairly 
busy right now, so getting more detailed review could take a while.

This topic sounds like a good candidate for the bi-weekly MM alignment 
session.

Would you be interested in presenting the current bpf interface, how to 
use it,  drawbacks, todos, ... in that forum?

David Rientjes, who organizes this meeting, is already on Cc.

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Cheers

David / dhildenb