From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: riel@surriel.com (Rik van Riel) Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 09:56:13 -0400 Subject: Regarding Hugetlbfs In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4D8F41FD.3000702@surriel.com> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org 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? -- All rights reversed.