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From: Grant Grundler <iod00d@hp.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 01:10:04 +0000
Subject: Re: Large-page support
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On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 09:54:41AM +0530, Santosh Abraham wrote:
> Any good reading available on why we need
> a hugetlbfs ? 

Yes. Googling got me here:
	http://developer.osdl.org/maryedie/LWE_NYC04_Links.html

See the top couple of links.

You might also read about superpages to get some of the background:
	http://lwn.net/Articles/40840/

grant