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In this article I will explain when and how to use huge pages.
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| | www.lukas-barth.net

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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| | ravendb.net

I previously askedwhat the code below does, and mentioned that it should give interesting insight into the kind of...
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| | albocoder.github.io

[AI summary] This blog post details the process of using static analysis with LLVM bitcode to identify the slab cache for kernel objects in the Linux kernel.
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