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It's nice for type 1 hypervisors when carving up memory for guests. When page walks for guest virtual to host physical end up taking sixteen levels, a 1G page
by monocasa 2y ago
It's nice for type 1 hypervisors when carving up memory for guests. When page walks for guest virtual to host physical end up taking sixteen levels, a 1G page short circuits that in half to eight.
- afr0ck 2y agoThat's what most hypervisors (e.g. Qemu) do on Linux when THP are enabled and allowed for the process.