Clarifying memory management with page folios

Posted Mar 25, 2021 23:00 UTC (Thu) by flussence (guest, #85566)
In reply to: Clarifying memory management with page folios by willy
Parent article: Clarifying memory management with page folios

7% is pretty impressive, considering that getting any performance improvement out of the mm code in this day and age is like drawing blood from a stone!

I vaguely remember getting excited over the original THP patchset because I'd measured a consistent 3-4% improvement in memory-heavy workloads…