J.C. Pizarro wrote:
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> What means Hugepage?
> 
> Does it mean 8KiB? 16KiB? 32KiB? 64KiB? 2MiB? 4MiB?
> 
> The real page sizes of x86 and x86-64 are 4 KiB for this linux kernel.
> 
> But the page sizes can be soft 8 KiB or 16 KiB or 32 KiB or 64 KiB
> if it is implemented in the memory manager of the kernel.
> 
> But too they exist real page sizes of 2 MiB and 4 MiB that they have
> some reserved entries of TLB in the specs of Intel/AMD processors
> for these gigant pages.

On x86, it means 2/4 MiB, or even 1 GiB in some very strange 
circumstances.  Other architectures might be different.

	-hpa
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