From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jinho hwang Subject: impact on only 1 hugepage Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 13:40:19 -0400 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f46d043bdf74b1813804dfad8f3b To: dev Return-path: List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org Sender: "dev" --f46d043bdf74b1813804dfad8f3b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi All, I want to ask experts about what impacts only 1 hugepage (whatever size... maybe 4GB) can impact. Since the goal of using hugepages is to reduce the number of pages used so that the lookup speed increases. Also, the hugepage is allocated at the beginning of booting the system, it must be consecutive physically. Hope to hear from experts! Jinho --f46d043bdf74b1813804dfad8f3b Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hi All,

I want to ask experts about what impac= ts only 1 hugepage (whatever size... maybe 4GB) can impact. Since the goal = of using hugepages is to reduce the number of pages used so that the lookup= speed increases. Also, the hugepage is allocated at the beginning of booti= ng the system, it must be consecutive physically.

Hope to hear from experts!

Jinho
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