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From: Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez <rnsanchez@wait4.org>
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Cc: Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com>, Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: superpage plans
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On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:16:25 +0100
Ulrich Spoerlein <uspoerlein@gmail.com> wrote:

> what performance impact do you estimate for "older" processors? I know
> very little about superpages, so I assume that, e.g., earlier Pentiums
> don't support it? Where do you think the break off point lies?

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but if superpages means using 4 MB TLB pages,
then it is quite old (~1993) and every pentium (i586 or newer) should support
it.

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Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez     <rnsanchez@{gmail.com,wait4.org}>
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