On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:07:48AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > <SNIP> > > [*] Note, it would be even better if the kernel provided the C library [a'ka > klibc] and if hugetlbs could be utilized via malloc() et al more hugectl --heap does this. It uses the __morecore hook in glibc to back malloc with files on hugetlbfs. There is also a programming API with some basic usage at http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/docs/stream-api/ The difference in distributions will hopefully be ironed out by replacing custom scripts with calls to hugeadm to do the bulk of the configuration work - e.g. creating mount points and permissions. There is no need to be creating a new user-space library in the kernel repo. > transparently by us changing the user-space library in the kernel repo and > deploying it to apps via a new kernel that provides an updated C library. > We dont do that so we are stuck with crappier solutions and slower > propagation of changes. > -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>