Re: [Linux-ia64] Page size

David Mosberger
2001-04-16T22:21:17Z

>>>>> On Mon, 16 Apr 2001 12:50:13 -0700, Michael Madore <mmadore@turbolinux.com> said:

Mike> Someone asked me the followind two questions, and I wanted to
Mike> verify before I gave an answer:

Mike> Is page size tunable at run time, and can the page size be
Mike> determined at run time.

Mike> I was under the impression that page size was a build time
Mike> parameter.

Don already answered the question as far as the status quo is
concerned.

As for the future: I'd like to start playing with superpage support
fairly soon (once I get some spare time on my hands... ;-). With
superpages, physically contiguous regions of memory could be mapped
with a single TLB entry, giving you most of the benefit of (very)
large page sizes.

--david