On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > The huge_pages feature is fairly new, and as I recall the intention is > that other operating systems will be supported as we get patches for it.
BTW about other operating systems: It looks like FreeBSD is already clever enough to use super pages as it calls them[1][2]. This is something like Linux's 'transparent huge pages' except apparently somewhat more transparent. Though I wonder if there is some advantage in adding a MAP_ALIGNED_SUPER flag to the mmap request. It looks like MacOSX can do it with VM_FLAGS_SUPERPAGE_SIZE_ANY but such mappings are not inherited by child processes. [1] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2012-June/039018.html [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wIxny-n_Mg <-- a really good talk about this stuff! -- Thomas Munro http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
