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To: Patrick Dung <patrick_dkt@yahoo.com.hk>
Subject: Re: About Transparent Superpages and Non-transparent superapges
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On Sep 18, 2013, at 10:08 , Patrick Dung wrote:

> I have seen somewhere that superpages support was being developed in HEAD=
 too.
> Any insight on it?


We at Line Rate (now F5) are developing support for 1 Gig superpages on amd=
64.  We're basing our work on 9.1.0 for now.

An early preview is available here:

https://github.com/Seb-LineRate/freebsd/tree/freebsd-9.1.0-1gig-pages-NOT-R=
EADY-2


--=20
Sebastian Kuzminsky