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> slow storage Linux recently gained the ability to swap huge pages to NVMe without having to split them. Combined with THP this can be quite fast.
by the8472 7y ago
> slow storage
Linux recently gained the ability to swap huge pages to NVMe without having to split them. Combined with THP this can be quite fast.
- eikenberry 7y agoHow recent? Did this happen back in the 4.x series or is it new to the 5.x series?
- the8472 7y ago4.14 contains some of the changes I read about. But the patch notes are different than what I originally read, I'm not sure whether this is the full feature or whether some of it stalled.