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		inetknght 33 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: io_uring is faster than mmap I don't work there any more (it was a decade ago) and I'm pretty busy right now with a new job coming up (offered today). Do you have kernel documentation that says that hugetlb doesn't work for files? I don't see that stated anywhere.

Sesse__ 33 days ago [–]

It's filesystem-dependent. In particular, tmpfs will work. To the best of my knowledge, no “normal” filesystems (e.g., ext4, xfs) will.

inetknght 32 days ago | [–]

It works fine on my ext4 fs...

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