Speeding Up The Linux Kernel With Transparent Hugepage
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 1:12 pm
Phoronix article
Good read if you are into that sort of thingTransparent Hugepages will not speed-up all Linux applications, but with memory and/or CPU intensive applications, it will cause some performance boosts, even without any user-land modifications. From the handful of Phoronix Test Suite benchmarks run, the best example we found was with NASA's OpenMP-based Fortran-written NAS Parallel Benchmarks. In particular, with the IS.C test, the performance jumped by more than 20%.