From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761191AbYCYXcv (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:32:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754712AbYCYXco (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:32:44 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:34548 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752234AbYCYXcn (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:32:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:32:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080325.163240.102401706.davem@davemloft.net> To: paulus@samba.org Cc: clameter@sgi.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: larger default page sizes... From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <18408.59112.945786.488350@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> References: <18408.29107.709577.374424@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20080324.211532.33163290.davem@davemloft.net> <18408.59112.945786.488350@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Paul Mackerras Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:50:00 +1100 > How do I get gcc to use hugepages, for instance? Implementing transparent automatic usage of hugepages has been discussed many times, it's definitely doable and other OSs have implemented this for years. This is what I was implying.