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From: riel@surriel.com (Rik van Riel)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Regarding Hugetlbfs
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 09:56:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D8F41FD.3000702@surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=dN7QD8COA6pSw+K7QFJkVT9=qK2QqoH-yLPqE@mail.gmail.com>

On 03/24/2011 06:55 AM, solmac john wrote:

> I am having the following query regarding Huge pages and hugetlbfs.
> 1-> How Hugetlbfs is dependent on hardware ?

Hugetlbfs needs two things:
1) the hardware supports large pages, simultaneously running
    with normal sized pages
2) someone wrote the hugetlbfs architecture dependent code
    for that hardware

> 2-> Huge pages which is architecture dependent and  ARM arm
> architecture supports Tiny, small and large pages will it support
> hugetlbfs if not then why ?

That I don't know.  Does ARM support running with normal and
large pages simultaneously?

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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-24 10:55 Regarding Hugetlbfs solmac john
2011-03-27 13:56 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
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2011-03-24  8:54 Regarding hugetlbfs solmac john

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