On 04/12/2010 11:34 AM, Nick Piggin wrote:
The interesting fact is also that such type of thing is also much more suitable for doing optimisation tricks. JVMs and RDBMS typically can make use of hugepages already, for example.
That just shows they're important enough for people to care. What transparent hugepages does is remove the tradeoff between performance and flexibility that people have to make now, and also allow opportunistic speedup on apps that don't have a userbase large enough to care.
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