From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:32:40 +0000 Subject: Re: larger default page sizes... Message-Id: <20080325.163240.102401706.davem@davemloft.net> List-Id: References: <18408.29107.709577.374424@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20080324.211532.33163290.davem@davemloft.net> <18408.59112.945786.488350@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <18408.59112.945786.488350@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: paulus@samba.org Cc: clameter@sgi.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org From: Paul Mackerras Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:50:00 +1100 > How do I get gcc to use hugepages, for instance? Implementing transparent automatic usage of hugepages has been discussed many times, it's definitely doable and other OSs have implemented this for years. This is what I was implying.