Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 00:42:02 +0100 From: "Attilio Rao" <attilio@freebsd.org> To: "Ryan Stone" <rstone@sandvine.com> Cc: freebsd-ia32@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Superpages (4 MB pages) support for x86? Message-ID: <3bbf2fe10611301542k41710fdane88b43d0b57be08c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <F489AB573A749146B33461ECE080913AD4BF1F@EXCHANGE-1.sandvine.com> References: <AccMu4vRZs3mzOMURQq%2B2yi8kkQRlg==> <F489AB573A749146B33461ECE080913AD4BF1F@EXCHANGE-1.sandvine.com>
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2006/11/20, Ryan Stone <rstone@sandvine.com>: > 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? It is unclear to me if you want to add superpages support for x86 or adding support for switching pages granularity 4 KB -> 4MB in FreeBSD-ia32... Attilio -- Peace can only be achieved by understanding - A. Einstein
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