On 10.10.2006 [17:24:07 +1000], David Gibson wrote: > This time commit c3f4d10a80d6ad8bb37ef6f80e70c3c7d778117a. The goal > noted in the comment of avoiding normal page mappings in the same > segment as the hugepage bss is all very laudable, but this has the > side effect of requiring up to 15 more hugepages for the program than > might otherwise be needed. Ouch.
Yes, this is sub-optimal. But the alternative was to have a library which we knew would not work for certain applications. We have a post-1.0 solution in the works, fwiw, but it will require a bit of time to get done. Thanks, Nish -- Nishanth Aravamudan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> IBM Linux Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Libhugetlbfs-devel mailing list Libhugetlbfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libhugetlbfs-devel
