From: William L. I. I. <wl...@ho...> - 2002-09-17 21:52:06
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At some point in the past, Tony Luck wrote: >> Can't you use LD_PRELOAD tricks to sneak a different version shmget/shmat >> to your DB2 binary so that you can intercept the important calls and >> divert them to use huge tlb pages? On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 02:42:31PM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > If we had a shmget/shmat call that supported large pages, that would > probably make it easier ? ;-) That's the whole issue - large pages aren't > supported with standard syscalls, so every app is required to rewrite their > memory handling, which isn't going to happen. > M. The pressure on this never lets up. It's being done, though I can't say I'm entirely happy with how quickly/slowly I'm getting it done myself. Bill |