Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:22:44 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: larger default page sizes... | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:48:19 -0700 (PDT)
> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, David Miller wrote: > > > There are ways to get large pages into the process address space for > > compute bound tasks, without suffering the well known negative side > > effects of using larger pages for everything. > > These hacks have limitations. F.e. they do not deal with I/O and > require application changes.
Transparent automatic hugepages are definitely doable, I don't know why you think this requires application changes.
People want these larger pages for HPC apps.
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