From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 5 22:21:51 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2476416A403 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 22:21:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-arch@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B840C43CCA for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 22:20:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-arch@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GrifH-0000fp-P6 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 23:21:27 +0100 Received: from 83-131-163-190.adsl.net.t-com.hr ([83.131.163.190]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 23:21:27 +0100 Received: from ivoras by 83-131-163-190.adsl.net.t-com.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 23:21:27 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 23:21:10 +0100 Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <45649E42.70409@cs.rice.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig1A34E8F5C714CEE93047301B" X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83-131-163-190.adsl.net.t-com.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) In-Reply-To: <45649E42.70409@cs.rice.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.2 Sender: news Subject: Re: superpage plans X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 22:21:51 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig1A34E8F5C714CEE93047301B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Alan Cox wrote: > Kip Macy wrote: >=20 >> 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? --------------enig1A34E8F5C714CEE93047301B Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFdfDdldnAQVacBcgRAhYQAKC5m6Sp1Y3giDM93JphBJB5zt45twCdEm2W LMLKUlEmNaouqTiF1mlhhcQ= =CSiQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig1A34E8F5C714CEE93047301B--