> On Jun 27, 2015, at 6:43 AM, Adam W. Dace <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> First, let me say a big thank you to those who have worked on the reclaimable
> freelist and HugePages code.
Cool! Note that reclaimable freelist is now gone and we will soon introduce a
buddy allocation scheme.
>
> I'm not really sure why, but simply using HugePages has resulted in a 100%
> speed boost on my ATS instance and it is now happily saturating my 50Mbps
> home connection. Whoo hoo! :)
Woah that's incredible. Good job Phil Sorber :)
>
> My quick question is this: What happens if ATS goes to allocate a HugePage
> and there are simply none left to be had? Will it crash?
I believe it will just fall back to normal allocations.
-- Leif
>
> I haven't had this happen, yet, but I'm trying to balance how much memory I'm
> willing to give to ATS with other memory left free so I can at least compile
> ATS on the same system.
>
> Thanks In Advance,
>
> Adam
>
