On Friday 30 March 2012, Zach Pfeffer wrote:

Last I read Transparent Huge Pages are still paged in and out a page
at a time, is this or was this ever the case? If it is the case should
the paging system be extended to support THP which would take care of
the big block issues with flash media?

I don't think we ever want to get /that/ big. As I mentioned, going
beyond 64kb does not improve throughput on most flash media. However,
paging out 16MB causes a very noticeable delay of up to a few seconds
on slow drives, which would be inacceptable to users.

Also, that would only deal with the rare case where the data you
want to page out is actually in huge pages, not the common case.

	Arnd

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