Re: [PATCH 00/20] Add support for shared PTEs across processes

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 15:54:34 -0800 Anthony Yznaga <anthony.yznaga@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Some of the field deployments commonly see memory pages shared
> across 1000s of processes. On x86_64, each page requires a PTE that
> is 8 bytes long which is very small compared to the 4K page
> size.

Dumb question: why aren't these applications using huge pages?