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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Advice On Enabling Transparent Hugepage
Date: Fri, 03 May 2013 19:55:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5183FA24.1090902@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130503121201.38bb3baa289af5cf25be22da@comcast.net>

Am 03.05.2013 18:12, schrieb Frank Peters:
> On Fri, 3 May 2013 05:13:44 +0000 (UTC)
> Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:
>
>>  
>> firefox definitely uses transparent huge-pages if they're generally 
>> available.  
>>
> According to this early benchmark at Phoronix, the improvement for
> system-wide THP use is not that impressive:
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_transparent_hugepages&num=1
>
> I think it would probably be best to enable THP in the kernel limited
> to MADV_HUGEPAGE only.
>

why? it has no downsides. Apps use transparent hugepages without knowing
it (that is what the magical transparent means). It does not slow down
things.

Just turn it on.


  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-03 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-02 20:33 [gentoo-amd64] Advice On Enabling Transparent Hugepage Frank Peters
2013-05-02 21:05 ` Paul Hartman
2013-05-02 22:51   ` Frank Peters
2013-05-03  5:13     ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2013-05-03 16:12       ` Frank Peters
2013-05-03 17:55         ` Volker Armin Hemmann [this message]
2013-05-02 22:38 ` Duncan

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