From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:48:19 -0700 (PDT) > On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, David Miller wrote: > > > There are ways to get large pages into the process address space for > > compute bound tasks, without suffering the well known negative side > > effects of using larger pages for everything. > > These hacks have limitations. F.e. they do not deal with I/O and > require application changes. Transparent automatic hugepages are definitely doable, I don't know why you think this requires application changes. People want these larger pages for HPC apps. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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