Re: [HACKERS] SHM_HUGETLB on Linux 2.6.

2008-01-20 Thread Kohei KaiGai
Kurt Roeckx wrote: Hi, Has anyone tried to use the huge tlb support of the Linux 2.6 kernel? If you compile the kernel with support for it (CONFIG_HUGETLBFS), you can call shmget() with a SHM_HUGETLB parameter so that it will use larger pages. Has anyone tried to use it? Is it worth trying to

[HACKERS] SHM_HUGETLB on Linux 2.6.

2008-01-19 Thread Kurt Roeckx
Hi, Has anyone tried to use the huge tlb support of the Linux 2.6 kernel? If you compile the kernel with support for it (CONFIG_HUGETLBFS), you can call shmget() with a SHM_HUGETLB parameter so that it will use larger pages. Has anyone tried to use it? Is it worth trying to set it up? Kurt -