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| From: | Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-amd64@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Advice On Enabling Transparent Hugepage | ||
| Date: | Fri, 03 May 2013 16:12:17 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20130503121201.38bb3baa289af5cf25be22da@comcast.net | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-amd64] Re: Advice On Enabling Transparent Hugepage by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> | ||
| 1 | On Fri, 3 May 2013 05:13:44 +0000 (UTC) |
| 2 | Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
| 3 | |
| 4 | > |
| 5 | > firefox definitely uses transparent huge-pages if they're generally |
| 6 | > available. |
| 7 | > |
| 8 | |
| 9 | According to this early benchmark at Phoronix, the improvement for |
| 10 | system-wide THP use is not that impressive: |
| 11 | |
| 12 | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_transparent_hugepages&num=1 |
| 13 | |
| 14 | I think it would probably be best to enable THP in the kernel limited |
| 15 | to MADV_HUGEPAGE only. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | Frank Peters |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Advice On Enabling Transparent Hugepage | Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> |