Block size
Block size
Posted Apr 13, 2026 9:28 UTC (Mon) by claudex (subscriber, #92510)Parent article: Removing read-only transparent huge pages for the page cache
Filesystem block size are much less smaller than a huge page, for example xfs max block size is 64KiB. So this will generate much more TLB entries than a huge page of 2MiB. Maybe this won't have any impact in practice but it seems odd to target the block size.
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