[Beowulf] Feedback on large pages in Linux
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Joe Landman landman at scalableinformatics.comMon Jul 17 13:16:00 PDT 2006
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Toon Moene wrote: >> 6. What would make large page support in Linux better for your >> application? > > Duh. Fewer TLB cache reloads. I would think that a simpler mechanism (not the "filesystem" approach) would be better. I would like to simply let an application use large pages for its allocations. Used to do this with IRIX and it was great. > > Cheers, > -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 786 8423 fax : +1 734 786 8452 or +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615
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