It's not clear to kernel developers what current and potential users of large pages want. In an effort to find out, we are conducting email interviews with Linux users, asking what their experiences have been and what functionality they would find useful.

The Questions

The following survey text will be sent to all participants to encourage consistency in the responses.

Thanks in advance for answering our questions. This information will be shared with many Linux developers, so please be as detailed as you can in your answers. We don't need to know the name of your organization or application, but we would appreciate it if you could tell us that as well. If you want your response to be discussed at the 2006 OLS large pages BOF (see [http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/view_abstract.php?content_key=289]), please return your answers by July 10, 2006. Also, please consider attending the large pages BOF if you will be at OLS. Thanks!

1. What does your organization do?

2. What does your application do?

3. How are large pages useful to you?

4. What is your experience with the Linux hugetlbfs implementation of large page support?

5. Does Linux's large page support affect your decision whether or not to use Linux? If so, how?

6. What would make large page support in Linux better for your application?

The Answers

We don't have anything to put in this section (and we may not want to). As results come in, they can be placed here, or on another page with different organization.