From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:49:23 -0700 > 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 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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