Add changelog for major changes from 2.0 Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Changes from V1: more verbosity about changes to library
NEWS | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e0faf67..dbb7316 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,42 @@ +libhugetlbfs 2.1 "NM 64" +====================================================================== +New Features +* Multiple page size support +* Add a more user friendly allocator that handles cache coloring +* Add pagesize utility to display supported page sizes +* Add hugeadm utility for managing hugepage pools +* Add hugectl utility for running programs using hugepages +* Add hugeedit utility for marking segments in aligned binaries for + huge page backing by default +* Deprecated linker linker scripts +* gethugepagesize() and getpagesizes() API added to programatically + discover supported hugepages +* Manual pages for all API functions and utilities +* Allow automatic backing of shared memory segments with hugepages +* huge page regions will no longer prefault for kernels >= 2.6.27 + improving mmap() performance and NUMA layout + +Bug Fixes +* Add missing segment to interp section in linker scripts +* Fix free_hugepage_region to handle segments that fell back to small + pages +* Fix install when lib32 and lib64 resolve to the same place +* Install header files so APIs can be used +* Fix installation paths to make life easier for package maintainers +* Do not export internal symbols unnecessarily +* Prefault regions allocated by direct allocation API on kernels older + than 2.6.27 +* Gracefully fallback to using base pages for text/data when the + hugepage pool is too small +* Fix handling of HUGETLB_SHARE_PATH environment variable +* Relax remapping requirements + +Test suite Fixes +* Added expected failure support +* gethugepagesizes override for getting meminfo +* Increase debug output for tests that fail +* Summarise pass and failure counts + libhugetlbfs 2.0 "Sandia Red" ====================================================================== -- 1.6.0.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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