Huge pages

[Tiago Stürmer Daitx]

On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 16:26 +0200, Volker Simonis wrote:

> I think it will be not trivial to get this working with all the
> combinations of different GCs and +/- compressed oops on all Linux
> architectures.
> 
> It would be really great if you could find sombody from the LTC who
> can explain why mmap with MAP_HUGETLB behaves differently on x86 and
> ppc.
> 
> 
I have already sent a distress signal, hopefully I'll soon be able to
get in touch with someone who understand this well enough to help us
improve hugepages support and also justify the changes and push them
upstream.


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