Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:14:26 -0400 | From | Pete Zaitcev <> | Subject | Re: Is it possible to use 8K page size on a i386 pc? |
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>[...] > I just wonder how PAGE_SIZE in determined in each architecture? Is it > possible to use 8k or bigger page size in a i386 PC? > > Thanks, > Xiangping
You may run into trouble with something that calls mmap with a fixed address, with executables which have text sizes of odd number of small pages. I was told that these problems are fairly rare.
Running a bigger page size does nothing to help your TLB coverage, but it might improve paging performance (or it might not).
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