Re: Improve logging when using Huge Pages

At Fri, 17 Sep 2021 00:13:41 +0900, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com> wrote in
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> On 2021/09/08 11:17, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote:
> > I don't dislike the message, but I'm not sure I like the message is
> > too verbose, especially about it has DETAILS. It seems to me something
> > like the following is sufficient, or I'd like see it even more
> > concise.
> > "fall back anonymous shared memory to non-huge pages: required %zu
> > bytes for huge pages"
> > If we emit an error message for other than mmap failure, it would be
> > like the following.
> > "fall back anonymous shared memory to non-huge pages: huge pages not
> > available"
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> How about simpler message like "disabling huge pages" or
> "disabling huge pages due to lack of huge pages available"?

Honestly, I cannot have conficence on my wording, but "disabling huge
pages" souds like somthing that happens on the OS layer. "did not
use/gave up using huge pages for anounymous shared memory" might work
well, I'm not sure, though...

regards.

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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center