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Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3b94dd209c..c7200cd4e8 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -93,9 +93,11 @@ Major new features: configuration. * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to - make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk calls. - Setting this might improve performance with Transparent Huge Pages madvise - mode depending of the workload. + either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk + or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB + flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages + is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved + huge pages. Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: |