Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH] Provide a direct allocator API for huge pages V2

2008-06-30 Thread Mel Gorman
On (30/06/08 14:13), David Gibson didst pronounce: > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 06:44:59PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > > HUGETLB_MORECORE currently exists to allow glibc to back malloc() with > > large pages instead of small pages. However, not all applications use glibc > > malloc() nor is it always d

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH] Provide a direct allocator API for huge pages V2

2008-06-29 Thread David Gibson
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 06:44:59PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > HUGETLB_MORECORE currently exists to allow glibc to back malloc() with > large pages instead of small pages. However, not all applications use glibc > malloc() nor is it always desirable to back malloc() with huge pages. There > exists a

[Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH] Provide a direct allocator API for huge pages V2

2008-06-27 Thread Mel Gorman
HUGETLB_MORECORE currently exists to allow glibc to back malloc() with large pages instead of small pages. However, not all applications use glibc malloc() nor is it always desirable to back malloc() with huge pages. There exists a requirement that a hugepage-aware application be able to allocate h