Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] libhugetlbfs malloc and numa issues

2006-09-05 Thread Adam Litke
Hey Bill: Did you get any input from your team on this yet? On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 15:05 -0500, Adam Litke wrote: > We are trying to improve the reliability of the libhugetlbfs malloc > function by prefaulting the huge pages at allocation time. If we do > this, we can guarantee (for apps which d

[Libhugetlbfs-devel] libhugetlbfs malloc and numa issues

2006-08-25 Thread Adam Litke
We are trying to improve the reliability of the libhugetlbfs malloc function by prefaulting the huge pages at allocation time. If we do this, we can guarantee (for apps which do not fork) that all of the pages are available and fall back to normal pages if enough huge aren't available. The proble