[PATCH] Support for hugetlb backed shared memory

[fio.git] / HOWTO

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@@ -357,6 +357,8 @@ mem=str             Fio can use various types of memory as the io unit buffer.
                        shm     Use shared memory as the buffers. Allocated
                                through shmget(2).
 
+                       shmhuge Same as shm, but use huge pages as backing.
+
                        mmap    Use anonymous memory maps as the buffers.
                                Allocated through mmap(2).