Transparent huge pages used in Shared memory

Generally the size of a page of memory in an x86 Linux system is 4KB. The use of Static Hugepages can increase this value to 2MB or 1GB pages depending on the configuration of the system. While Static Hugepages are configured manually, the kernel can use a heuristic to automatically promote an allocation from multiple 4KB pages to a 2MB Transparent Huge Page (THP). It also supports the demotio...