LIBHUGETLBFS(7)

NAME
libhugetlbfs - preload library to back text, data and malloc() with huge pages

SYNOPSIS
libhugetlbfs [options] files...

DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the libhugetlbfs and bar pre-loaded library.

libhugetlbfs is a pre-loaded library that can be used to back application text, data and malloc() with hugepages. This is generally of use to applications that use large amounts of address space and suffer a performance hit due to TLB misses. Wall-clock time or oprofile can be used to determine if there is a performance benefit from using libhugetlbfs or not. See /usr/share/docs/libhugetlbfs/HOWTO for futher instructions.

SEE ALSO
oprofile(1)

AUTHOR
libhugetlbfs was written by Adam Litke, David Gibson, Nishanth Aravamudan, Steve Fox and various others on the libhugetlbfs-devel mailing list.

This manual page was written by Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).