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From: john slee <indigoid@higherplane.net>
To: Peter Svensson <petersv@psv.nu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: x86 Page Sizes
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 10:36:17 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020706003616.GB17010@higherplane.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206270832400.1602-100000@cheetah.psv.nu>

On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 08:35:05AM +0200, Peter Svensson wrote:
> The x86 cpus can use 4K or 4M pages in the hardware. The 4M pages are 

DDJ ran an article quite a few years on this very topic.  i'm sure they
also mentioned that some processors (ppro/p2 onwards?) are capable of
2MiB pages

j.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-07-06  0:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-26 22:02 x86 Page Sizes Dan Sturtevant
2002-06-26 22:11 ` Robert Love
2002-06-27  6:35   ` Peter Svensson
2002-06-27 14:26     ` Steven Cole
2002-06-27 15:39       ` Robert Love
2002-07-06  0:36     ` john slee [this message]
2002-07-06  6:22       ` William Lee Irwin III

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