Re: 9.4 release notes

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 9.4 release notes
Date: 2014-05-05 14:18:44
Message-ID: 20140505141844.GG6018@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 03:49:27PM +0200, Andres Freund wrote:

> > + <listitem>
> > + <para>
> > + Add huge_pages configuration parameter to attempt to use huge translation look-aside buffer (TLB) pages on Linux (Christian Kruse,
> > + Richard Poole, Abhijit Menon-Sen)
> > + </para>
> >
> > I think this is too detailed - how about: "... to use huge pages ..."?
>
> I am not sure on this as the default is "try", but I updated the wording
> like your suggested:
>
> Add huge_pages configuration parameter to enable huge
> translation look-aside buffer (TLB) pages on Linux

Please see
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20140226161302.GD4759@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org
about the "TLB huge pages" terminology. Maybe "..enable huge MMU
pages..." as suggested by Peter G. in that sub-thread.

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services

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