> > Sigh. A pox on whoever thought up huge pages.
>
> managing 1TB+ of memory in 4K chunks is just insane.
> The question of larger pages is not "if", but only "when".
And "how"!
Sprinking a bunch of magical if (thp) {} else {} throughtout the code
looks like a stunningly bad idea to me. It'd take real work to
restructure the code such that the current paths are a degenerate case
of the larger thp page case, but that's the work that needs doing in my
estimation.
- z
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