How Transparent Huge Pages Work: Collapse, Split, and Why the Kernel Tries to Hide 2 MiB Pages
A process that allocates a multi-gigabyte heap does not have to map every 4 KiB page through its own page-table entry. On x86-64 the hardwar...
A process that allocates a multi-gigabyte heap does not have to map every 4 KiB page through its own page-table entry. On x86-64 the hardwar...