From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:16:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080325.171649.223175755.davem@davemloft.net> Subject: Re: larger default page sizes... From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1FE6DD409037234FAB833C420AA843ECE9E2CA@orsmsx424.amr.corp.intel.com> References: <18408.59112.945786.488350@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20080325.163240.102401706.davem@davemloft.net> <1FE6DD409037234FAB833C420AA843ECE9E2CA@orsmsx424.amr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org From: "Luck, Tony" Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:49:23 -0700 Return-Path: To: tony.luck@intel.com Cc: paulus@samba.org, clameter@sgi.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org List-ID: > Making an application use huge pages as heap may be simple > (just link with a different library to provide with a different > version of malloc()) ... code, stack, mmap'd files are all > a lot harder to do transparently. The kernel should be able to do this transparently, at the very least for the anonymous page case. It should also be able to handle just fine chips that provide multiple page size support, as many do. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org