Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 Apr 2004 17:07:52 +1000 | From | Paul Mackerras <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] radix priority search tree - objrmap complexity fix |
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Christoph Hellwig writes: > On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 04:22:33AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > Well, I doubt anybody could take advantage of this optimization, since > > nobody can ship with hugetlbfs disabled anyways (peraphs with the > > exception of the embedded people but then I doubt they want to risk > > Common. stop smoking that bad stuff. Almost non-one except the known > oracle whores SuSE and RH need it. Remeber Linux is used much more widely > except the known "Enterprise" vendors. None of the NAS/networking/media > applicances or pdas I've seen has the slightest need for hugetlbfs.
The HPC types also love hugetlbfs since it reduces their tlb miss rate.
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