From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 08:05:05 -0700 From: "Martin J. Bligh" Reply-To: "Martin J. Bligh" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Config.help entry for CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE Message-ID: <480345900.1031731504@[10.10.2.3]> In-Reply-To: <1031755731.1990.262.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> References: <1031755731.1990.262.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Steven Cole , Andrew Morton Cc: "Seth, Rohit" , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > +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. -- 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/