Article 6WBJC [$] Approaches to reducing TLB pressure

[$] Approaches to reducing TLB pressure

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The CPU's translation lookaside buffer (TLB) caches the results ofvirtual-address translations, significantly speeding memory accesses. TLBmisses are expensive, so a lot of thought goes into using the TLB asefficiently as possible. Reducing pressure on the TLB was the topic of Rikvan Riel's memory-management-track session at the 2025 Linux Storage,Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit. Some approaches wereconsidered, but the session was short on firm conclusions.
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