Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 23:18:56 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: alc@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large virtual page size support. Message-ID: <63333.1137536336@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:27:10 PST." <43CD612E.2060002@elischer.org>
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In message <43CD612E.2060002@elischer.org>, Julian Elischer writes: >Jeff Roberson wrote: > >> 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: > >Mach (and the VM system we inherrited from it) had this. I beieve it was >removed with teh comment >"If we need this and someone is willing to support it it can be added >back" . It was a VAX artifact and not very usable. I belive we have a couple of comments and macros which still talk about "clicks". -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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