From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 22 11:53:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E295637B719 for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:53:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f2MJrCm09963; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:53:12 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:53:12 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Terry Lambert Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4MB pages Message-ID: <20010322115312.Y9431@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <200103221946.MAA15517@usr06.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200103221946.MAA15517@usr06.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 07:46:30PM +0000 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Terry Lambert [010322 11:47] wrote: > I know that this is going to look like I should have posted it > on the "-arch-questions" list, but there isn't one, and it > involves future work (I think), so here goes... > > > Has anyone tried playing with 4MB pages for doing other things? > [snip] > As usual, I'm playing with 4.x, not 5.x, so feel free to tell > me that this has already been thought of, and therefore is not > an issue for -arch. I think -hackers is more appropriate. As far as using 4MB pages, it would be nice to be able to add it for: 1) shm segements 2) mlock'd regions. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Represent yourself, show up at BABUG http://www.babug.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message