The GNU C Library's malloc implementation is now enabling 2MB Transparent Huge Pages (THP) by default for AArch64 Linux. This is being done in the name of better performance -- a healthy 6.25% performance improvement is noted for SPEC with this change...
Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-malloc-2MB-THP-AArch64
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Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-malloc-2MB-THP-AArch64
Aggregated via Linux News
