• [$] Using large folios for text areas

    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Tue Apr 8 15:00:08 2025
    [$] Using large folios for text areas

    Date:
    Tue, 08 Apr 2025 13:57:54 +0000

    Description:
    Quite a bit of work has been done in recent years to allow the kernel to
    make more use of large folios. That progress has not yet reached the
    handling of text (executable code) areas, though. During the
    memory-management track of the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, Ryan Roberts ran a session on how that situation might be improved. It would be a relatively small and contained operation, but can give a measurable performance improvement.

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    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/1016416/


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