Thanks for your continuous efforts on this Leonardo, I have no further suggestion. I think to stay on the safe side we will keep everything as-is for now.
I'd say it is IBMs call to decide between this now: a) Speed: Call 1781526 unblocked by the evaluation here. We'd re-consider SRUing that bug then based on your call this won't cause issues on ppc64el. b) Safety: since it was only a minor performance improvement but has the potential hidden breakage associated we keep 1781526 in Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1788098 Title: Avoid migration issues with aligned 2MB THB Status in The Ubuntu-power-systems project: Invalid Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in qemu package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in linux source package in Bionic: Invalid Status in linux source package in Cosmic: Invalid Bug description: FYI: This blocks bug 1781526 - once this one here is resolved we can go on with SRU considerations for 1781526 ------- Comment From jhop...@us.ibm.com 2018-08-20 17:12 EDT------- Hi, in some environments it was observed that this qemu patch to enable THP made it more likely to hit guest migration issues, however the following kernel patch resolves those migration issues: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git/commit/?h=kvm-ppc-next&id=c066fafc595eef5ae3c83ae3a8305956b8c3ef15 KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Use correct pagesize in kvm_unmap_radix() Once merged upstream, it would be good to include that change as well to avoid potential migration problems. Should I open a new bug for that or is it better to track here? Note Paelzer: I have not seen related migration issues myself, but it seems reasonable and confirmed by IBM. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-power-systems/+bug/1788098/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
