On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 09:06:16AM -0500, Andrew Hastings wrote:
> On 06/08/2011 09:40 PM, Eric B Munson wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 8:50 PM, David Gibson
> > <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
[snip]
> Actually, in thinking about this some more I wonder if the
> implementation ought to be using sbrk instead of mmap? This would allow
> the initial part of the heap (which begins in the data segment) to be
> mapped by transparent hugepages, and would avoid putting a "hole" in the
> virtual address space between the initial part of the heap and the
> hugepage-aligned part.
Further reducing what the thp morecore option actually does. I'm
really not seeing quite what morecore=thp accomplishes; I thought the
whole point of thp was that you'd get hugepgaes without having to do
anything special at all.
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