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@@ -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: