On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 04:43:02PM +0000, Eric B Munson wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > > > Add support for multiple page sizes to hugectl. Now that the library > > supports specification of the backing page size to use for the various > > mappings we should expose this functionality in hugectl. This patch > > adds an optional size argument to all of the segment mapping options > > specifying the backing page size required. These are converted into the > > appropriate variables and passed on. For example, the following incantation > > requests text be placed in 2MB pages, data in 64KB pages and the heap in > > the default size: > > > > hugectl --text=2M --data=64K --heap ls > > > > Combinations which are not possible result in warnings as normal. > > The sizes are not validated but passed verbatim to the library which will > > then validate them. > > > > Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I didn't see anything that I object to, but I do not have the hardware to > test. > > Reviewed-by: Eric B Munson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You can test this in principle without any hardware using the --dry-run option. This in combination with the various options will show you the variables as set and allow you to see if its doing something sane. -apw ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Libhugetlbfs-devel mailing list Libhugetlbfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libhugetlbfs-devel
