From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Config.help entry for CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 08:05:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <480345900.1031731504@[10.10.2.3]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1031755731.1990.262.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov>
> +CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
> + This enables support for huge pages (4MB for x86). User space
> + applications can make use of this support with the sys_alloc_hugepages
> + and sys_free_hugepages system calls. If your applications are
> + huge page aware and your processor (Pentium or later for x86) supports
> + this, then say Y here.
> +
> + Otherwise, say N.
They're not always 4Mb on x86 ... they're 2Mb if you have PAE
turned on ... maybe just leave out the "(4MB for x86)" comment?
M.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-11 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-11 14:48 Steven Cole
2002-09-11 15:05 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2002-09-11 15:17 ` Steven Cole
2002-09-11 15:29 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-09-11 17:39 Seth, Rohit
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