Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 6 Mar 2004 22:06:04 -0800 | From | Wim Coekaerts <> | Subject | Re: Any way to access huge pages ? |
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well thats where you have hugetlbfs and you mmap a file in /dev/hugetlbfs or whever it goes works fine
or shmfs but the its not large pages I guess, unless you have the bigpages feature in the vendor versions. like bigpages in rhas21 can be for shmfs.
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 09:21:28PM -0800, Peter Zaitsev wrote: > Hello, > > I'm wondering is there any way to access "large pages" (4MB) memory > other than using shared memory ? For example can you do anonymous mmap > to get access to large pages. > > I would like to utilize large pages for MySQL buffer pool and other > large caches, but would not like to use Shared memory for this purpose > as it will complicate things for users. > > > -- > Peter Zaitsev, Senior Support Engineer > MySQL AB, www.mysql.com > > Meet the MySQL Team at User Conference 2004! (April 14-16, Orlando,FL) > http://www.mysql.com/uc2004/ > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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