Public bug reported: Initial support for multi-size THP landed upstream in v6.8. In the 6.9 merge window, 2 other series have landed that show significant performance improvements on arm64
mm/memory: optimize fork() with PTE-mapped THP https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2401.3/02766.html Transparent Contiguous PTEs for User Mappings: https://lwn.net/Articles/962330/ On an Ampere AltraMax system w/ 4K page size, kernel builds in a tmpfs are reduced from 6m30s to 5m17s, a ~19% improvement. ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2059316 Title: backport arm64 THP improvements from 6.9 Status in linux package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Initial support for multi-size THP landed upstream in v6.8. In the 6.9 merge window, 2 other series have landed that show significant performance improvements on arm64 mm/memory: optimize fork() with PTE-mapped THP https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2401.3/02766.html Transparent Contiguous PTEs for User Mappings: https://lwn.net/Articles/962330/ On an Ampere AltraMax system w/ 4K page size, kernel builds in a tmpfs are reduced from 6m30s to 5m17s, a ~19% improvement. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/2059316/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
