---with THP--- #cat /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled [always] madvise never # Running mem/memcpy benchmark... # Copying 1gb Bytes ... 12.208522 GB/Sec (with prefault) Performance counter stats for './perf bench mem memcpy -l 1gb -o': 26,453,696 cache-misses # 35.411 % of all cache refs [57.66%] 74,704,531 cache-references [58.40%] 2,297 page-faults 146,567,960 dTLB-loads [58.64%] 211,648,685 dTLB-stores [58.63%] 14,533 dTLB-load-misses # 0.01% of all dTLB cache hits [57.46%] 640 iTLB-loads [55.74%] 270,881 iTLB-load-misses # 42325.16% of all iTLB cache hits [55.17%] 0.232425109 seconds time elapsed ---no THP--- #cat /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled always madvise [never] # Running mem/memcpy benchmark... # Copying 1gb Bytes ... 18.325087 GB/Sec (with prefault) Performance counter stats for './perf bench mem memcpy -l 1gb -o': 28,498,544 cache-misses # 86.167 % of all cache refs [57.35%] 33,073,611 cache-references [57.71%] 524,540 page-faults 453,500,641 dTLB-loads [57.99%] 409,255,606 dTLB-stores [57.99%] 2,033,985 dTLB-load-misses # 0.45% of all dTLB cache hits [57.52%] 1,180 iTLB-loads [56.69%] 539,056 iTLB-load-misses # 45682.71% of all iTLB cache hits [56.02%] 0.485932214 seconds time elapsed