[$] Better automatic management of transparent huge pages

Date:
Tue, 26 May 2026 13:23:23 +0000

Description:
Huge pages can improve performance by increasing translation lookaside
buffer (TLB) utilization and reducing memory-management overhead. Transparent huge pages (THPs) are supposed to make huge-page usage,
well, transparent, Nico Pache said at the beginning of his session in the memory-management track of the 2026 Linux Storage,
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit . That transparency has
never worked as well as many would like; he has been working on
improvements to make it easier for applications to use huge pages on Linux systems. A following session, led by David Hildenbrand, was focused on how THPs could be taken away from processes that are not using them fully.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1073407/


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