Hello all, We are doing some work on large page support in Linux. Large page support lets applications use hardware support for page translations in sizes larger than the system base page, thereby reducing TLB pressure and improving performance for many workloads. We're looking for feedback from current or future users of large pages in Linux, and we suspect the HPC community might be interested in this topic. :)
The survey is included below, and also available at: http://linux-mm.org/HugetlbUserFeedback Please reply directly to me, unless you have something to share with the whole list. Thanks! -VAL Thanks in advance for answering our questions. This information will be shared with many Linux developers, so please be as detailed as you can in your answers. We don't need to know the name of your organization or application, but we would appreciate it if you could tell us that as well. If you want your response to be discussed at the 2006 OLS large pages BOF (see http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/view_abstract.php?content_key=289), please return your answers by July 10, 2006. Also, please consider attending the large pages BOF if you will be at OLS. Thanks! 1. What does your organization do? 2. What does your application do? 3. How are large pages useful to you? 4. What is your experience with the Linux hugetlbfs implementation of large page support? 5. Does Linux's large page support affect your decision whether or not to use Linux? If so, how? 6. What would make large page support in Linux better for your application? _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
