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[$] Using large folios for text areas
Tuesday April 8, 2025. 03:57 PM , from LWN.net
Quite a bit of work has been done in recent years to allow the kernel to
make more use of large folios. That progress has not yet reached the handling of text (executable code) areas, though. During the memory-management track of the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, Ryan Roberts ran a session on how that situation might be improved. It would be a relatively small and contained operation, but can give a measurable performance improvement.
https://lwn.net/Articles/1016416/
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