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    Transparent hugepage support · fa1e2b74
    Henrik Gramner authored
    Combine frame and mb data mallocs into a single large malloc.
    Additionally, on Linux systems with hugepage support, ask for hugepages on
    large mallocs.
    
    This gives a small performance improvement (~0.2-0.9%) on systems without
    hugepage support, as well as a small memory footprint reduction.
    
    On recent Linux kernels with hugepage support enabled (set to madvise or
    always), it improves performance up to 4% at the cost of about 7-12% more
    memory usage on typical settings..
    
    It may help even more on Haswell and other recent CPUs with improved 2MB page
    support in hardware.
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