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Using Huge Pages on Linux | Erik Rigtorp
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The OOMsday device | Prodfiler
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Huge Pages are a Good Idea (evanjones.ca)
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| | [AI summary] The post explains how using huge pages in virtual memory can improve CPU performance by reducing translation lookaside buffer (TLB) misses, while discussing potential downsides like memory fragmentation and compatibility issues with certain software patterns.
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Allocating Huge Pages on Linux
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| | If you build an application that uses large, contiguous amounts of memory, it can increase your performance if you allocate this memory in so-called huge pages. Linux offers you two ways of doing that - a legacy way and a modern way. This article describes the modern way of using huge pages, so called transparent huge pages (THP) and applies the techniques from a previous article to verify that we actually got huge pages. The article starts by giving a super-short recap on how paging works and why huge p...
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Kernel patchsets - Currency
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| `gregkh` has some opinions about what version of the Linux kernel you should use. I largely agree, but I think we can go further.