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To: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>
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Subject: Re: Large virtual page size support. 
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In message <20060117002541.I602@10.0.0.1>, Jeff Roberson writes:
>I have implemented support in the vm for PAGE_SIZE values which are a 
>multiple of the hardware page size.  This is primarily useful for two 
>things:

Sounds like a good thing to me.

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