Re: Any way to access huge pages ?

[Roland Dreier]

    Peter> Hello, I'm wondering is there any way to access "large
    Peter> pages" (4MB) memory other than using shared memory ?  For
    Peter> example can you do anonymous mmap to get access to large
    Peter> pages.

    Peter> I would like to utilize large pages for MySQL buffer pool
    Peter> and other large caches, but would not like to use Shared
    Peter> memory for this purpose as it will complicate things for
    Peter> users.

Does mmap() on hugetlbfs do what you want?  See
Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt for details.

 - Roland
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