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Commit ID be9df38f271f0c69bd5adbd2ba34fd9a90b6fe1b
Author anematode
Date 2026-05-24 12:17:54 UTC
Add 1GB page support on x86 Linux 1GB pages for the TT give a small performance bump (`./stockfish speedtest 256 32000`): master: Nodes/second : 230514479 patch Nodes/second : 237997728 With a large enough TT there is still dTLB thrashing with 2MB pages. 1GB pages reduces that and makes page table walks a bit faster (they're shorter, and there's fewer PTEs, which fits better in cache). `madvise` won't give you huge pages, only large pages, so we use mmap here. We guard the huge page attempt to x86 + at least 8 huge pages per NUMA node, to avoid memory oversubscription when for example running with a 1.1 GB hash. Additionally, we change the TT clearing slightly so that the pages are better distributed across NUMA nodes. Data from Torom: master: Nodes/second : 43524292 patch: Nodes/second : 44080034 Data on an 8-thread Emerald Rapids VM: ./stockfish speedtest 8 65536 Baseline speedtest (2MB huge pages): Nodes/second : 7366232 Nodes/second : 7262794 Nodes/second : 7355431 Nodes/second : 7318777 Baseline speedtest (1GB huge pages): Nodes/second : 7541027 Nodes/second : 7572720 Nodes/second : 7550268 Nodes/second : 7538925 closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/6681 No functional change
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