| Title | MPS does not benefit from huge TLB entries |
| Status | open |
| Priority | optional |
| Assigned user | Richard Brooksby |
| Organization | Ravenbrook |
| Description | Some OSs now support "huge TLB pages" that potentially allow large areas of memory to occupy fewer TLB slots. The MPS could potentially use these. |
| Analysis | This article <https://lwn.net/Articles/379748/> describes methods for determining if there is any benefit. |
| How found | unknown |
| Evidence | man mmap on Ubuntu 14.04 |
| Created by | Richard Brooksby |
| Created on | 2016-03-11 15:08:58 |
| Last modified by | Richard Brooksby |
| Last modified on | 2016-03-11 15:08:58 |
| History | 2016-03-11 RB Created. |