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[$] High-granularity mappings for huge pages

Wednesday May 17, 2023. 02:53 PM , from LWN.net
The use of huge pages can make memory management more efficient in a number
of ways, but it can also impose costs in the form of internal fragmentation and
I/O amplification. At the 2023 Linux
Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management and BPF Summit, James Houghton
ran a session on a scheme to get the best of both worlds: using huge pages
while maintaining base-page mappings within them.
https://lwn.net/Articles/931773/
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