[Libhugetlbfs-devel] Booting Linux to *only* use "huge" pages.

2009-08-24 Thread Toon Moene
who need all memory of it anyway, so there's little to gain from small page sizes. [ Yes, I know this will make the occasional 'ls', 'rm' and 'mv' also at least 2 MB in size ] Thanks in advance for any insight provided ... and happy hacking ! -- Toon Moene - e

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] Booting Linux to *only* use "huge" pages.

2009-08-25 Thread Toon Moene
Dave Hansen wrote: > On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 23:51 +0200, Toon Moene wrote: >> [ I found this e-mail address while surfing http://linux-mm.org - >>hope it's relevant. ] >> >> Is it possible to boot the Linux kernel in such a way as to *only* >> enable &q

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] Booting Linux to *only* use "huge" pages.

2009-08-25 Thread Toon Moene
Dave Hansen wrote: > On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 22:52 +0200, Toon Moene wrote: >> The days of OS kernel hacking are 20 years behind me now, but I see that >> it is not as simple as Solaris' "you just compile with -xpagesize=4M". > That's pretty cool. Is it

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] Booting Linux to *only* use "huge" pages.

2009-08-27 Thread Toon Moene
Mel Gorman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:51:07PM +0200, Toon Moene wrote: >> [ I found this e-mail address while surfing http://linux-mm.org - >>hope it's relevant. ] >> >> Is it possible to boot the Linux kernel in such a way as to *only* >>

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] Booting Linux to *only* use "huge" pages.

2009-08-28 Thread Toon Moene
Mel Gorman wrote: > The file called HOWTO in the libhugetlbfs source package. The > recompilation step will align the sections and then run them with huge > pages using hugectl --text --data --bss --heap ./targetapp I found it (on SourceForge.net). Thanks ! -- Toon Moene -