Solmac

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 9:30 PM, <kernelnewbies-request@kernelnewbies.org> wrote:

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1. Re: Regarding Hugetlbfs (Rik van Riel)

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Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 09:56:13 -0400
From: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Subject: Re: Regarding Hugetlbfs
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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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