On Wed, 5 Sep 2018, Laurent Dufour wrote: > On 05/09/2018 17:10, Christopher Lameter wrote: > > Large page sizes also reduce contention there. > > That's true for the page fault path, but for process's actions manipulating the > memory process's layout (mmap,munmap,madvise,mprotect) the impact is minimal > unless the code has to manipulate the page tables. And how exactly are you going to do any of those operations _without_ manipulating the page tables? Thanks, tglx
