I'm surprised this article doesn't mention one typical solution to the problem of massive numbers of expensive page faults for large allocations: Pages bigger t

I'm surprised this article doesn't mention one typical solution to the problem of massive numbers of expensive page faults for large allocations: Pages bigger than 4K, which are supported on most modern operating systems. On Linux they go by the name "huge pages": https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt