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From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
To: DervishD <raul@viadomus.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, yinlei_yu@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: Is there anyway to use 4M pages on x86 linux in user level?
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 08:46:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C482739.9498E422@didntduck.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16RYAn-0005jM-00@DervishD.viadomus.com>

DervishD wrote:
> 
>     Hi Yinlei :)
> 
> >Since x86 architecutre has a 4M page feature
> 
>     I may certainly be wrong but... is not 4k OR 16M the page size on
> x86 arch? I didn't know about 4M page. Could you send me the GTD
> settings for that? (Just curiosity :)))

The large page size is 4MB, except in PAE mode where they are 2MB. 
Normal pages are always 4KB.  Noting in the GDT affects the page size.

-- 

						Brian Gerst

  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-18 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-18 12:31 Is there anyway to use 4M pages on x86 linux in user level? DervishD
2002-01-18 13:46 ` Brian Gerst [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-18 23:18 DervishD
2002-01-18 21:10 DervishD
2002-01-18 21:14 ` Brian Gerst
2002-01-18 21:37 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-01-17 17:18 Yinlei Yu
2002-01-17 17:48 ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-18  7:23 ` Jeremy Jackson

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