[PATCH 1/4] win32u: Add freelist cache allocator.

[Jinoh Kang]

On 3/23/22 01:41, Paul Gofman wrote:
> On 3/22/22 19:37, Jinoh Kang wrote:
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>> In my experience on Linux pre-faulting the memory this way reduce the overhead greatly, while the benefit of explicit huge pages management over this is not apparent.
>> That shows stark difference from my experience.  In my case, memset()-ing yielded no significant improvement in performance (the faults moves from blitting to zeroing).
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> Did you have transparent huge pages enabled?

Sorry, I somehow misread "explicit HP" as "transparent HP."  It now makes total sense.
To answer your question, no (for some reason).  I think it's safe to treat myself as a special case here.

Not all platforms have THP though, so I'll have to evaluate whether my patchset could bring more advantage at less VM overhead on such platforms.

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Sincerely,
Jinoh Kang