[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“Transparently leveraging huge pages on Linux–which allow
memory page table entries to cover larger (up to multiple
megabytes) ranges of contiguous physical memory–has become much
easier with the recent introduction of Version 1 of the
libhugetlbfs library on SourceForge. The libhugetlbfs library has
been updated for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (SLES 10) and is
available for Red Hat Enterprise Server Linux 5 (RHEL 5). Customers
use it for benchmarking activities to improve select applications
on POWER, Intel, and AMD systems with Linux. With a focus on IBM
POWER processor-based systems with 16MB page sizes, this article
provides an introduction to libhugetlbfs…”