From: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
Vivek Kashyap <vivk@us.ibm.com>,
Mel Gorman <mel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Robert MacFarlan <Robert_MacFarlan@us.ibm.com>,
"Fu, Michael" <michael.fu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Large Pages - Linux Foundation HPC
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:54:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1240728861.29485.41.camel@nimitz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090425084804.GA517@localhost>
On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 16:48 +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> Based on Dave's descriptions that HPC apps typically
> - do mlock(), to pre-populate memory and pin them in memory
> - run at fresh boot, with loads of high order pages available
There are definitely some of them that do this, but it certainly isn't
all. It may not even be the norm.
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-26 6:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-21 16:32 Large Pages - Linux Foundation HPC Badari Pulavarty
2009-04-21 16:57 ` Dave Hansen
2009-04-21 18:25 ` Balbir Singh
2009-04-25 8:48 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-04-26 6:54 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2009-04-27 14:12 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-04-28 3:15 ` Wu Fengguang
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