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From Kurt Roeckx
Subject SHM_HUGETLB on Linux 2.6.
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Msg-id 20080119123439.GA6068@roeckx.be
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Responses Re: SHM_HUGETLB on Linux 2.6.  (Kohei KaiGai <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>)
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Hi,

Has anyone tried to use the huge tlb support of the Linux 2.6 kernel?
If you compile the kernel with support for it (CONFIG_HUGETLBFS), you
can call shmget() with a SHM_HUGETLB parameter so that it will use
larger pages.

Has anyone tried to use it?  Is it worth trying to set it up?


Kurt

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