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Date:      Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:16:54 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-ia32@freebsd.org
Cc:        Ryan Stone <rstone@sandvine.com>
Subject:   Re: Superpages (4 MB pages) support for x86?
Message-ID:  <200611301816.55280.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <F489AB573A749146B33461ECE080913AD4BF1F@EXCHANGE-1.sandvine.com>
References:  <F489AB573A749146B33461ECE080913AD4BF1F@EXCHANGE-1.sandvine.com>

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On Monday 20 November 2006 10:50, Ryan Stone wrote:
> I'm interested in making use of the 4 MB pages options in x86.  Has
> anyone done any work on this for FreeBSD?  I know that some work was
> done on superpages for the Alpha and AMD64.
> 
>  
> 
> If there's no prior work on this, I'll be writing it myself.  Does
> anybody know if the superpages work would contain anything useful for a
> x86 port?
> 
>  
> 
> Any hints or guidance would be quite welcome.

Alan Cox's superpages work also works on i386 I thought.

-- 
John Baldwin



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