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Re:Slitter: A slab allocator that trusts, but verifies by stefan_ on Thursday August 05, 2021 @07:42AM (#28072344)
Address space is unlimited but pages are still 4K.
Re:Slitter: A slab allocator that trusts, but verifies by Const-me on Thursday August 05, 2021 @07:52AM (#28072417)
Right, I thought about large pages for that, unfortunately on Windows they’re pretty much useless. They require an elevated process, and they are incompatible with swap file i.e. they never paged to disk even when there’s low memory: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/memory/large-...
Re:Slitter: A slab allocator that trusts, but verifies by gpderetta on Thursday August 05, 2021 @10:37AM (#28074307)
and TLB is also a scarce resource.