On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 07:08:22AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately, I am not sensitive to issues surrounding 1TB segments or how
> > they are currently being used. However, as this clearly helps performance
> > for large amounts of memory, is it worth providing an option to
> > libhugetlbfs to locate 16MB pages above 1TB when they are otherwise being
> > unused?
>
> AFAIK, that is already the case, at least the kernel will hand out pages
> above 1T preferentially iirc.
>
> There were talks about making huge pages below 1T not even come up
> untily you ask for them with MAP_FIXED, dunno where that went.
That was already the case as far as I remember. But it's just
possible that changed when the general slice handling code came in,
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