HFT CORE SYSTEMS

Huge pages: explicit HugeTLB vs. THP

Lesson 16 of 96Phase 02: CPU and memory systems
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Learning objectives

What you should understand

  1. Compare explicit huge pages with transparent huge pages
  2. Understand allocation, fragmentation and fallback behavior
  3. Verify page size instead of assuming it

Lab

Hands-on exercise

Run one memory workload under base pages, THP and HugeTLB.

Deliverable

Evidence of completion

A deployment note comparing latency, operability and failure modes.

Prerequisite
EP 15

Phase 02

CPU and memory systems

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