Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> In a *very* quick patch I tested using huge pages/MAP_HUGETLB for the mmap'ed
>> memory.

> So, considering that there is required setup, it seems that the
> obvious thing to do here is add a GUC: huge_tlb_pages (boolean).

> The other alternative is to try with MAP_HUGETLB and, if it fails, try
> again without MAP_HUGETLB.

+1 for not making people configure this manually.

Also, I was under the impression that recent Linux kernels use hugepages
automatically if they can, so I wonder exactly what Andres was testing
on ...

			regards, tom lane

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• huge tlb support at 2012-07-03 02:49:10 from Robert Haas

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• Re: huge tlb support at 2012-07-03 11:30:35 from Andres Freund
• Re: huge tlb support at 2012-07-09 05:32:15 from YAMAMOTO Takashi

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