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Hugepagesize: 2048 kB</pre> | Hugepagesize: 2048 kB</pre> | ||
* The <tt>hugepages=</tt> kernel parameter or <tt>/proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages</tt> can be used to preallocate/release huge pages | * The <tt>hugepages=</tt> kernel parameter or <tt>/proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages</tt> can be used to preallocate/release huge pages. From the same machine, with <tt>nr_hugepages=512</tt>: | ||
<pre>HugePages_Total: 1024 | |||
HugePages_Free: 1016 | |||
HugePages_Rsvd: 1 | |||
HugePages_Surp: 0 | |||
Hugepagesize: 2048 kB</pre> | |||
* Val Henson wrote a good 2006 [http://lwn.net/Articles/188056/ KHB article] in LWN on transparent largepage support | * Val Henson wrote a good 2006 [http://lwn.net/Articles/188056/ KHB article] in LWN on transparent largepage support | ||
* Jonathan Corbet followed up with a relevant summary of the [http://lwn.net/Articles/250335/ 2007 Kernel Summit's] VM mini-summit | * Jonathan Corbet followed up with a relevant summary of the [http://lwn.net/Articles/250335/ 2007 Kernel Summit's] VM mini-summit | ||