Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 23:21:10 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: superpage plans Message-ID: <el4rcr$9j8$1@sea.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <45649E42.70409@cs.rice.edu> References: <b1fa29170611220939g32469638ncf3a3ddd4bba3670@mail.gmail.com> <45649E42.70409@cs.rice.edu>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Alan Cox wrote: > Kip Macy wrote: > >> Do you have any thoughts on when superpage support might go into >> -CURRENT? >> > I plan to do it over the Christmas holidays. I will merge it in three > stages: First, the new buddy-style physical memory allocator > (vm/vm_phys.c). Second, the superpage reservation system. Third, pmap > support for individual architectures. I see there's two sort-of related things that touch the physical memory allocator - NUMA (AMD) and memory hot-plug (for SPARC & probably Itanium). Will superpages or the work done for them help build these features? [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFdfDdldnAQVacBcgRAhYQAKC5m6Sp1Y3giDM93JphBJB5zt45twCdEm2W LMLKUlEmNaouqTiF1mlhhcQ= =CSiQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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