Messages in this thread | | | From | Peter Chubb <> | Date | Sun, 14 Mar 2004 16:22:42 +1100 | Subject | Re: [Lse-tech] Re: Hugetlbpages in very large memory machines....... |
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>>>>> "William" == William Lee Irwin, <William> writes:
William> At some point in the past, I wrote:
William> On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 05:10:10PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: >> Redesigning the low level TLB fault handling for this would not >> count as "easily" in my book.
William> I make no estimate of ease of implementation of long mode William> VHPT support. The point of the above is that the virtual William> placement constraint is an artifact of the implementation and William> not inherent in hardware.
Ther's a patch available to enable long-format VHPT at www.gelato.unsw.edu.au
We're waiting for 2.7 to open before pushing it in. The long-format vpht is a prerequisite for other work we're doing on super-pagesand TLB sharing.
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