Regarding Hugetlbfs

[Rik van Riel]

On 03/24/2011 06:55 AM, solmac john wrote:

> I am having the following query regarding Huge pages and hugetlbfs.
> 1-> How Hugetlbfs is dependent on hardware ?

Hugetlbfs needs two things:
1) the hardware supports large pages, simultaneously running
    with normal sized pages
2) someone wrote the hugetlbfs architecture dependent code
    for that hardware

> 2-> Huge pages which is architecture dependent and  ARM arm
> architecture supports Tiny, small and large pages will it support
> hugetlbfs if not then why ?

That I don't know.  Does ARM support running with normal and
large pages simultaneously?

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