NVIDIA Sends Out Latest Linux Kernel Patches For 1GB THP To Help Boost Performance

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NVIDIA Sends Out Latest Linux Kernel Patches For 1GB THP To Help Boost Performance

30 September 2020, 03:00 AM

Phoronix: NVIDIA Sends Out Latest Linux Kernel Patches For 1GB THP To Help Boost Performance

NVIDIA software engineer Zi Yan sent out on Monday his latest "1GB PUD THP" patches in aiming to boost application performance on Linux for software making use of large amounts of RAM...

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01 October 2020, 09:34 AM

I've been running all my Ubuntu systems with the 2MB transparent huge pages set to 'always' with a kernel boot option, and it's been beautiful. I'm trying to get the default for Raspberry Pi Ubuntu kernels set to 'madvise' so they're available if needed. THP is a great feature, and I can totally see how 1GB THPs could be useful for people running Java apps and other big memory consumers.
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