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Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 17:07:52 +1000
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Christoph Hellwig writes:
> On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 04:22:33AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > Well, I doubt anybody could take advantage of this optimization, since
> > nobody can ship with hugetlbfs disabled anyways (peraphs with the
> > exception of the embedded people but then I doubt they want to risk
> 
> Common. stop smoking that bad stuff.  Almost non-one except the known
> oracle whores SuSE and RH need it.  Remeber Linux is used much more widely
> except the known "Enterprise" vendors.  None of the NAS/networking/media
> applicances or pdas I've seen has the slightest need for hugetlbfs.

The HPC types also love hugetlbfs since it reduces their tlb miss
rate.

Paul.