MPS issue job003981

TitleMPS does not benefit from huge TLB entries
Statusopen
Priorityoptional
Assigned userRichard Brooksby
OrganizationRavenbrook
DescriptionSome OSs now support "huge TLB pages" that potentially allow large areas of memory to occupy fewer TLB slots. The MPS could potentially use these.
AnalysisThis article <https://lwn.net/Articles/379748/> describes methods for determining if there is any benefit.
How foundunknown
Evidenceman mmap on Ubuntu 14.04
Created byRichard Brooksby
Created on2016-03-11 15:08:58
Last modified byRichard Brooksby
Last modified on2016-03-11 15:08:58
History2016-03-11 RB Created.