Comment by namibj
16 hours ago
Nah, usually can't have huge pages. Almost certainly can't have giant pages. Can't even fit all L3$ capacity into the L2 TLB if done via 4k pages...
16 hours ago
Nah, usually can't have huge pages. Almost certainly can't have giant pages. Can't even fit all L3$ capacity into the L2 TLB if done via 4k pages...
I hadn't thought of that but apparently Linux at least has had support for a while, according to manpage? https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/mmap.2.html