Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:12:47 -0700 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH, RFC 0/9] Introduce huge zero page |
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> Because this is done the right way (i.e. to allocate an hugepage at > the first wp fault, and to fallback exclusively if compaction fails) > it will help much less than the 4k zero pages if the zero pages are
The main benefit is that you have a zero page with THP enabled. So it lowers the cost of having THP on (for workloads that benefit from a zero page)
-Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only
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