On Wed, 07 Dec 2011, Eric B Munson wrote: > Changes from V1: > * Add note to HOWTO that the HEAPBASE option is not used with THP morecore > * Change warning in thp_morecore to more accurately reflect the problem > discovered > > Transparent huge pages (THP) make using huge pages on x86(_64) incredibly > easy. > However, the standard glibc malloc is not setup to optimixe allocations to be > fulfilled as THP, relying on khugepaged to scan and merge huge pages when > possible. This patch set extends the morecore idea that was originally used > to > back the heap with hugetlbfs huge pages to ensure that the heap is grown in > huge page sized increments. This allows the kernel allocator to start the new > area as a huge page rather than wait for promotion.
Applied, thanks. Eric
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