From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 21 02:03:24 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C515322; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 02:03:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cedric.blancher@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ie0-x233.google.com (mail-ie0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::233]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E87742F7E; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 02:03:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f179.google.com with SMTP id e14so2510595iej.10 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 19:03:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=ZGZxz1qg+uRs/ZzpmXryGjCL2Nvmpe8e2SH7pWGd/uA=; b=UBsw6nOfvVYaDDdkdZAqv87+JTRVMCnU54U7x39nm+V29m2FE3bG9Hvu6i1but8iPL XYMjqiM1ILJBOyWsGcplXhYHDC/Kr4Yl4qY+Q7ZiD+aBOAFJgqurGC17lNPtAoxjwQQO vKhh32F6B2ARBxLmA0/3xoUiDcvwVlpAE71lo8/iujIRNuHPb+3EaZlqDLSS0V9Cx84h WYupMGIogJaJreiWqCcs+oSHsO5H0hgGz9dNcWX0GDxXHjIKQe2uQCFX4/GREKuKh3qz j5TI+tdVWUn+iWPTRZ01KOYE6wUQZs+SReQzRoQytCAwRaKgyef7wBUYOWSE7VVPKJ91 62EQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.42.22.202 with SMTP id p10mr26421icb.47.1379729003232; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 19:03:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.228.129 with HTTP; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 19:03:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <22E7E628-E997-4B64-B229-92E425D85084@f5.com> References: <1379520488.49964.YahooMailNeo@web193502.mail.sg3.yahoo.com> <22E7E628-E997-4B64-B229-92E425D85084@f5.com> Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 04:03:23 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: About Transparent Superpages and Non-transparent superapges From: Cedric Blancher To: Sebastian Kuzminsky Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Patrick Dung , "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" , "ivoras@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 02:03:24 -0000 On 19 September 2013 22:34, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > 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 amd64. 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-READY-2 Have you ever asked Roland Mainz to look at your work? He worked on MPSS (multiple page size support) on Solaris and did a lot of the optimisation work there. Ced -- Cedric Blancher Institute Pasteur