To avoid issues encountered with trimming, it is current disabled in morecore.c. The HOWTO does not mention this fact, however. Correct this.
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/HOWTO b/HOWTO index 08a547f..8c13d46 100644 --- a/HOWTO +++ b/HOWTO @@ -208,6 +208,9 @@ segment); for 64-bit PowerPC binaries the address is rounded-up to a multiple of 1TB. On all other platforms the address is rounded-up to the size of a hugepage. +Note: The current implementation of hugepage malloc disables trimming. +Therefore hugetlb memory allocated from the system will not be returned on +free(). Using hugepage text, data, or BSS --------------------------------- -- 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libhugetlbfs-devel
