The
userspace allocation API was only one of the big additions made to libhugetlbfs 2.1. A number of helper utilities were also added for configuring the system easily (hugeadm), the launching of applications to automatically use large pages (hugectl), to set defaults for applications (hugeedit) and to display information about the page sizes supported by the system (pagesize). In combination, they should make using huge pages under Linux that bit easier but
here is a document that briefly describes how to install the utilities, configure the system and launch the sysbench benchmark using the utilities.
