Are 1.7% really worth it?
Are 1.7% really worth it?
Posted May 12, 2026 3:19 UTC (Tue) by koverstreet (subscriber, #4296)In reply to: Are 1.7% really worth it? by PeeWee
Parent article: Providing 64KB base pages with 4KB kernels, two different ways
The bigger point that I don't see mentioned much is the kernel already has large folios, which bring all those benefits in a much saner way without new weirdness.
It's just that not all code has been converted to use them, and besides btrfs the last I heard was anonymous memory seemed to be stalled.