SHM_HUGETLB on Linux 2.6.

From: Kurt Roeckx <kurt(at)roeckx(dot)be>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: SHM_HUGETLB on Linux 2.6.
Date: 2008-01-19 12:34:39
Message-ID: 20080119123439.GA6068@roeckx.be
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Hi,

Has anyone tried to use the huge tlb support of the Linux 2.6 kernel?
If you compile the kernel with support for it (CONFIG_HUGETLBFS), you
can call shmget() with a SHM_HUGETLB parameter so that it will use
larger pages.

Has anyone tried to use it? Is it worth trying to set it up?

Kurt

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