Hmm? x86 has supported much larger “huge” page sizes for ages.
Yes, and Linux. at least historically, has not used them without explicit program opt-in. Often advice is to disable transparent huge pages for performance reasons. Not sure about other operating systems.
See, for example, https://www.pingcap.com/blog/transparent-huge-pages-why-we-d...
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Yes, and Linux. at least historically, has not used them without explicit program opt-in. Often advice is to disable transparent huge pages for performance reasons. Not sure about other operating systems.
See, for example, https://www.pingcap.com/blog/transparent-huge-pages-why-we-d...