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Date:      Sun, 12 Jul 1998 20:08:50 -0700
From:      Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
To:        Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Page size flexibility in FreeBSD VM? 
Message-ID:  <199807130308.UAA26460@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>

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On Sun, 12 Jul 1998 21:33:56 +0200 
 Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de> wrote:

 > So where's the problem.  A page is 4k by definition then.  ;-)

The base page size (e.g. minimum) certainly would be, but you'd want to
be able to communicate to the pmap a hint that says "merge into large
pages if possible".

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