From: Martin J. B. <mb...@ar...> - 2002-09-17 22:02:49
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>>> 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. Sorry, I wasn't trying to harrass you - was trying to emphasize how important it is that this gets accepted once it's complete. M. |