Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH 2/3] Add support to hugeadm for configuring transparent huge pages

2011-09-15 Thread Andrew Hastings
Eric B Munson wrote: > Transparent huge pages (THP) have two tunables in sysfs used to control the > behavior of khugepaged. This patch adds the support for controlling these > tunables via hugeadm options. > > Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson Acked-by: Andrew Hastings ---

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH 3/3] Add controls to hugectl for new THP related env variables

2011-09-15 Thread Andrew Hastings
Eric B Munson wrote: > This patch adds controls for the new THP related functionality in the library. > > Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson Acked-by: Andrew Hastings -- Doing More with Less: The Next Generation Virtual Des

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Extend morecore functionality to better use THP

2011-09-15 Thread Andrew Hastings
Eric B Munson wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Andrew Hastings wrote: > >> Eric, >> >> On 07/11/11 10:51, Eric B Munson wrote: >>> 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 >>> b

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Extend morecore functionality to better use THP

2011-09-15 Thread emunson
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:25:29 -0500, Andrew Hastings wrote: > Eric B Munson wrote: >> On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Andrew Hastings wrote: >> >>> Eric, >>> >>> On 07/11/11 10:51, Eric B Munson wrote: Transparent huge pages (THP) make using huge pages on x86(_64) incredibly easy. However, the

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Add support for THP in morecore

2011-09-15 Thread Andrew Hastings
Long quote; please see below: Eric B Munson wrote: > Transparent huge pages (THP) give another option for access to huge pages for > anonymous mappings. This patch adds the ability to specify that the process > heap should be aligned and (if requested madvised) to be merged into huge > pages > b

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Extend morecore functionality to better use THP

2011-09-15 Thread Andrew Hastings
emun...@mgebm.net wrote: > On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:25:29 -0500, Andrew Hastings wrote: >> Eric B Munson wrote: >>> On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Andrew Hastings wrote: >>> Eric, On 07/11/11 10:51, Eric B Munson wrote: > Transparent huge pages (THP) make using huge pages on x86(_64) >