Technical discussion of proposed changes to transparent huge pages (THP) handling in the Linux kernel's page cache. The article examines engineering considerations around removing or restricting THP support for page cache operations.
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[$] Removing read-only transparent huge pages for the page cache
Linux kernel maintainers propose removing transparent huge pages from the page cache to reduce memory management complexity and improve stability.
Friday, April 10, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: LWN.netBY sys://pipeline
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