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Deferred THP Insertion Nearing The Linux Kernel To Help Avoid Memory Waste
A patch currently residing within Andrew Morton's 'MM' memory management branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.16 merge window is an addition by Red Hat for introducing deferred THP insertion to khugepaged
A patch currently residing within Andrew Morton's "MM" memory management branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.16 merge window is an addition by Red Hat for introducing deferred THP insertion to khugepaged. This deferred Transparent Huge Page (THP) insertion aims to help reduce memory waste on Linux with some workloads. The Red Hat engineer explains in the MM patch commit message:"We've seen cases were customers switching from RHEL7 to RHEL8 see a significant increase in the memory footprint for the same workloads.
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