nixos/redis: disable transparent huge pages (TLP) before starting Redis

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/databases/redis.nix b/nixos/modules/services/databases/redis.nix
index 3f2857100f5..37cc179023a 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/databases/redis.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/databases/redis.nix
@@ -40,7 +40,12 @@ in
       enable = mkOption {
         type = types.bool;
         default = false;
-        description = "Whether to enable the Redis server.";
+        description = ''
+          Whether to enable the Redis server. Note that the NixOS module for
+          Redis disables kernel support for Transparent Huge Pages (THP),
+          because this features causes major performance problems for Redis,
+          e.g. (https://redis.io/topics/latency).
+        '';
       };
 
       package = mkOption {
@@ -224,6 +229,16 @@ in
 
     environment.systemPackages = [ cfg.package ];
 
+    systemd.services.disable-transparent-huge-pages = {
+      enable = config.services.redis.enable;
+      description = "Disable Transparent Huge Pages (required by Redis)";
+      after = [ "sysinit.target" "local-fs.target" ];
+      before = [ "redis.service" ];
+      wantedBy = [ "redis.service" ];
+      script = "echo never >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled";
+      serviceConfig.Type = "oneshot";
+    };
+
     systemd.services.redis =
       { description = "Redis Server";