• Ondřej Zajíček's avatar
    Alloc: Disable transparent huge pages · 928a1cb0
    Ondřej Zajíček authored
    The usage pattern implemented in allocator seems to be incompatible with
    transparent huge pages, as memory released using madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)
    with regular page size and alignment does not seem to trigger demotion
    of huge pages back to regular pages, even when significant number of
    pages is released. Even if demotion is triggered when system memory
    is low, it still breaks memory accounting.
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