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From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:36:45 +0000
Subject: RE: Three random questions
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Duraid Madina wrote on Monday, June 28, 2004 6:04 AM
> 2) What is the Right Way to get huge pages at the moment? I'm running a
> 2.6.5-rc and seem to be running across odd bugs using hugetlbfs.

Check out Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt in the kernel source tree for
a detailed explanation.  If you found any bug in this area, please report
to the mailing list.  We fixed a few bugs last week. So might be good to
try latest kernel.


> 3) Whatever happened to alloc_hugepages()? That strikes me as vastly (!)
> superior to hugetlbfs, at least for the scientist types who just want to
> escape horrible TLB thrashing.

This was debated on the linux kernel mailing list extensively in the past,
check out the archive.