Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Aug 2014 09:07:45 +0300 | From | "Kirill A. Shutemov" <> | Subject | Re: x86: vmalloc and THP |
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On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 08:00:54AM +0300, Oren Twaig wrote: > <html style="direction: ltr;">
plain/text, please.
>Hello, > >Does memory allocated using vmalloc() will be mapped using huge >pages either directly or later by THP ?
No. It's neither aligned properly, nor physically contiguous.
>If not, is there any fast way to change this behavior ? Maybe by >changing the granularity/alignment of such allocations to allow such >mapping ?
What's the point to use vmalloc() in this case?
-- Kirill A. Shutemov
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