On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 14:00 -0800, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > (Note: Final pre-1.1 patch in my queue) > > We currently run into problems with the libhugetlbfs malloc > implementation if hugepages are available when we mmap, but not > available when we touch them. The application is killed, even though > there were sufficient hugepages at some point in its lifetime. We have > code which uses mlock() to bring in all the hugepages in our heap, but > it was commented-out because of bad NUMA performance (all hugepages > would be allocated node-local). Bring back that code, as the kernel-side > issues with NUMA and hugepages have been resolved (interleave works > again), and add a comment indicating NUMA users should use numactl to > specify the hugepage allocation policy. > > Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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