From: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
To: Peter Zaitsev <peter@mysql.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Any way to access huge pages ?
Date: 06 Mar 2004 21:56:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <523c8lw67k.fsf@topspin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1078636886.2313.718.camel@abyss.local>
Peter> Hello, I'm wondering is there any way to access "large
Peter> pages" (4MB) memory other than using shared memory ? For
Peter> example can you do anonymous mmap to get access to large
Peter> pages.
Peter> I would like to utilize large pages for MySQL buffer pool
Peter> and other large caches, but would not like to use Shared
Peter> memory for this purpose as it will complicate things for
Peter> users.
Does mmap() on hugetlbfs do what you want? See
Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt for details.
- Roland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-07 5:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-07 5:21 Peter Zaitsev
2004-03-07 5:56 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2004-03-07 6:06 ` Wim Coekaerts
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