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  1. JDK
  2. JDK-8252973

ZGC: Implement Large Pages support on Windows

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    • Enhancement
    • Status: Resolved
    • P4
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 16
    • 16
    • hotspot
    • gc
    • b26
    • windows

    Description

      Recent Windows versions (>= 1809) have support for "shared" AWE sections. It that can be used to implement Large Pages support for ZGC.

      Memory Reservation:
      In comparison to the placeholder memory reservation, which is used for the small pages implementation, we don't have to split and keep track of "sub-reservations" with the shared AWE.

      Memory Committing and Uncomitting:
      The small pages implementation creates one paging file handle for each 2MB. With shared AWE, we only need one section that can grow and shrink dynamically.

      Multi-mapping:
      Memory in the shared AWE section can be mapped into multiple places virtual address space.

      A first prototype can be found here:
      https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~stefank/prototype/zWindowsLargePages/webrev.01/

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              stefank Stefan Karlsson
              stefank Stefan Karlsson
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