Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Add support for THP in morecore

2011-06-15 Thread Eric B Munson
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Andrew Hastings wrote: > Eric B Munson wrote: > >It is true that you will end up with huge pages for the heap eventually > >without > >changing anything. khugepaged will promote areas it finds that are 2MB > >aligned, etc. However, it is possible to have things _allocated_

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Add support for THP in morecore

2011-06-15 Thread Andrew Hastings
Eric B Munson wrote: > It is true that you will end up with huge pages for the heap eventually > without > changing anything. khugepaged will promote areas it finds that are 2MB > aligned, etc. However, it is possible to have things _allocated_ as > transparent huge pages without requiring promo

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Add support for THP in morecore

2011-06-15 Thread Eric B Munson
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, David Gibson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 09:06:16AM -0500, Andrew Hastings wrote: > > On 06/08/2011 09:40 PM, Eric B Munson wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 8:50 PM, David Gibson > > > wrote: > [snip] > > Actually, in thinking about this some more I wonder if the >