Re: [PATCH] Use MAP_HUGETLB where supported (v3) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Abhijit Menon-Sen
Subject Re: [PATCH] Use MAP_HUGETLB where supported (v3)
Date
Msg-id 20131030170920.GI4183@toroid.org
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In response to Re: [PATCH] Use MAP_HUGETLB where supported (v3)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [PATCH] Use MAP_HUGETLB where supported (v3)
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At 2013-10-30 11:04:36 -0400, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
>
> > As a compromise, perhaps we can unconditionally round the size up to be
> > a multiple of 2MB? […]
>
> That sounds reasonably painless to me.

Here's a patch that does that and adds a DEBUG1 log message when we try
with MAP_HUGETLB and fail and fallback to ordinary mmap.

-- Abhijit

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