Large pages and Java


I’ve recently spent a lot of time in memory reservation code of the JVM. It started out because we got an external contribution to enable use of multiple large page sizes for Linux. To do this in a good way some other things had to be refactored first. While taking this trip down memory lane I realized that doing a short summary of how large pages are used by the JVM might be an interesting read…

More at https://kstefanj.github.io/2021/05/19/large-pages-and-java.html