build: warn upon --use-largepages config option

Emit a warning when the user configures with `--use-largepages` and/or `--use-largepages-script-lld` informing them that the option is now available as a Node.js runtime option once it is built. Refs: #31063 (comment) Backport-PR-URL: #31063 PR-URL: #31103 Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Denys Otrishko <[email protected]>
nodejs · Feb 6, 2020 · 766c2ab · 766c2ab
1 parent 330eb10
commit 766c2ab
Showing 1 changed file with 7 additions and 0 deletions.
diff --git a/configure.py b/configure.py
@@ -1040,6 +1040,13 @@ def configure_node(o):
   else:
     o['variables']['node_use_dtrace'] = 'false'
 
+  if options.node_use_large_pages or options.node_use_large_pages_script_lld:
+    warn('''The `--use-largepages` and `--use-largepages-script-lld` options
+         have no effect during build time. Support for mapping to large pages is
+         now a runtime option of Node.js. Run `node --use-largepages` or add
+         `--use-largepages` to the `NODE_OPTIONS` environment variable once
+         Node.js is built to enable mapping to large pages.''')
+
   if options.no_ifaddrs:
     o['defines'] += ['SUNOS_NO_IFADDRS']