Re: Large Pages - Linux Foundation HPC

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Sun Apr 26 2009 - 02:54:40 EST


On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 16:48 +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> Based on Dave's descriptions that HPC apps typically
> - do mlock(), to pre-populate memory and pin them in memory
> - run at fresh boot, with loads of high order pages available

There are definitely some of them that do this, but it certainly isn't
all. It may not even be the norm.

-- Dave

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