Low Latency Optimization: Huge Pages

This post series explores low-latency optimization techniques, focusing on the role of huge pages and the Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) in the Linux operating system on x86 hardware. Part 1 explains the benefits of huge pages, detailing how they reduce memory management overhead and improve address translation latency by allowing the TLB to cover a larger memory footprint. A benchmark demonstrates significant performance improvements for memory-intensive operations when using huge pages. Part 2 will cover practical implementation and caveats in production environments.