@Julian,
That isn't what the article is saying. Huge pages are not swappable at the moment. However Andrea's work splits huge pages into base pages for a number of reasons, one of those is memory pressure that would force part of the page to be swapped out.
@Julian,
That isn't what the article is saying. Huge pages are not swappable at the moment. However Andrea's work splits huge pages into base pages for a number of reasons, one of those is memory pressure that would force part of the page to be swapped out.