Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:22:46 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Superpages? Message-ID: <48ACC366.2070804@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <g8ibc8$1l3$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> References: <g8968h$q9l$2@ger.gmane.org> <ca3526250808181657s321621fflb48c0b72841acb0d@mail.gmail.com> <g8ibc8$1l3$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>
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Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Alan Cox <alan.l.cox@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Superpages are not enabled by default but support for them is a standard >> part of the amd64 and i386 kernel on HEAD. You can enable superpages on >> either of those architectures by simply setting the tunable >> vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled to a non-zero value at boot time. > > To clarify: This needs to be set in loader.conf. sysctl.conf is > evaluated too late. > Yeah, "tunable" means that in the FreeBSD context. For modules you can also set it in kenv before the module loads. Kris
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