src: make --use-largepages a runtime option

Moves the option that instructs Node.js to-remap its static code to
large pages from a configure-time option to a runtime option. This
should make it easy to assess the performance impact of such a change
without having to custom-build.

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/30954
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Gireesh Punathil <gpunathi@in.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Denys Otrishko <shishugi@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 33 deletions

diff --git a/configure.py b/configure.py
index 95766d405a3..de27bb34038 100755
--- a/configure.py
+++ b/configure.py
@@ -404,17 +404,6 @@ parser.add_option('--with-etw',
     dest='with_etw',
     help='build with ETW (default is true on Windows)')
 
-parser.add_option('--use-largepages',
-    action='store_true',
-    dest='node_use_large_pages',
-    help='build with Large Pages support. This feature is supported only on Linux kernel' +
-         '>= 2.6.38 with Transparent Huge pages enabled and FreeBSD')
-
-parser.add_option('--use-largepages-script-lld',
-    action='store_true',
-    dest='node_use_large_pages_script_lld',
-    help='link against the LLVM ld linker script. Implies -fuse-ld=lld in the linker flags')
-
 intl_optgroup.add_option('--with-intl',
     action='store',
     dest='with_intl',
@@ -1068,28 +1057,6 @@ def configure_node(o):
   else:
     o['variables']['node_use_dtrace'] = 'false'
 
-  if options.node_use_large_pages and not flavor in ('linux', 'freebsd', 'mac'):
-    raise Exception(
-      'Large pages are supported only on Linux, FreeBSD and MacOS Systems.')
-  if options.node_use_large_pages and flavor in ('linux', 'freebsd', 'mac'):
-    if options.shared or options.enable_static:
-      raise Exception(
-        'Large pages are supported only while creating node executable.')
-    if target_arch!="x64":
-      raise Exception(
-        'Large pages are supported only x64 platform.')
-    if flavor == 'mac':
-      info('macOS server with 32GB or more is recommended')
-    if flavor == 'linux':
-      # Example full version string: 2.6.32-696.28.1.el6.x86_64
-      FULL_KERNEL_VERSION=os.uname()[2]
-      KERNEL_VERSION=FULL_KERNEL_VERSION.split('-')[0]
-      if KERNEL_VERSION < "2.6.38" and flavor == 'linux':
-        raise Exception(
-          'Large pages need Linux kernel version >= 2.6.38')
-  o['variables']['node_use_large_pages'] = b(options.node_use_large_pages)
-  o['variables']['node_use_large_pages_script_lld'] = b(options.node_use_large_pages_script_lld)
-
   if options.no_ifaddrs:
     o['defines'] += ['SUNOS_NO_IFADDRS']