Large Page allocation strategy only for 2003?

[Jon Masamitsu]

On 10/1/2012 5:03 PM, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> Hello,
>
> While investigating the risks of using/recommending large pages I 
> noticed that there are two different allocations strategies. One 
> requests the whole area (I guess thats part of the heap in NUMA?) with 
> a single malloc or with multiple (+UseLargePagesIndividualAllocation). 
> The option for this defaults to single on all platforms but Windows 2003.
>
> I wonder if this is really a 2003 thing only. or if the code should be 
> updated to default to on on Win7,8,2008 and 2008R2 as well.

I believe that it was a workaround for a problem on windows 2003.
I don't recall anymore details.

Jon

>
> I asume, that not the whole heap will be allocated in case of NUMA, 
> right? Because otherwise I could see use for the IndividulaAllocations 
> in that case as well, otherwise a single locality might get exhausted?
>
> Greetings
> Bernd