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Transparent hugepagesTransparent hugepagesPosted Oct 30, 2009 8:21 UTC (Fri) by MisterIO (guest, #36192)Parent article: Transparent hugepages
Couldn't they add this feature in a parameterized form? then at compile time you decide the max dimension of hugepages.
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Transparent hugepages Posted Oct 30, 2009 14:53 UTC (Fri) by dtlin (✭ supporter ✭, #36537) [Link]
Only if somebody writes the code first. Right now I think it's one-size-
only.
Transparent hugepages Posted Nov 8, 2009 3:29 UTC (Sun) by butlerm (subscriber, #13312) [Link]
Hugepages here rely on multiple page size support in hardware to minimize
translation lookaside buffer (TLB) overhead in the CPU. As such, you can only use the size or handful of sizes the CPU supports.
It is possible to do something similar in software alone, to create larger
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