←back to thread

283 points ghuntley | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.405s | source
Show context
jared_hulbert ◴[] No.45133330[source]
Cool. Original author here. AMA.
replies(5): >>45133433 #>>45133597 #>>45133666 #>>45133764 #>>45135337 #
Jap2-0 ◴[] No.45133433[source]
Would huge pages help with the mmap case?
replies(2): >>45133546 #>>45133572 #
1. inetknght ◴[] No.45133572[source]
> Would huge pages help with the mmap case?

Yes. Tens- or hundreds- of gigabytes of 4K page table entries take a while for the OS to navigate.