From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: john slee <indigoid@higherplane.net>
Cc: Peter Svensson <petersv@psv.nu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: x86 Page Sizes
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 23:22:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020706062244.GT22961@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020706003616.GB17010@higherplane.net>
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
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 10:36:17AM +1000, john slee wrote:
> 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
This has been rehashed too many times. There is a nice table in Intel's
processor manuals (the 3rd volumes on System Programming) describing
which combinations of options give which page sizes.
Cheers,
Bill
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-06 6:21 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
2002-07-06 6:22 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
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