>From: Sebastian Kuzminsky <s.kuzmin...@f5.com> >To: Patrick Dung <patrick_...@yahoo.com.hk> >Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>; >"ivo...@freebsd.org" <ivo...@freebsd.org> >Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 4:34 AM >Subject: Re: About Transparent Superpages and Non-transparent superapges > >On Sep 18, 2013, at 10:08 , Patrick Dung wrote: > >> I have seen somewhere that superpages support was being developed in HEAD >> too. >> Any insight on it? > > >We at Line Rate (now F5) are developing support for 1 Gig superpages on amd64. > We're basing our work on 9.1.0 for now. > >An early preview is available here: > >https://github.com/Seb-LineRate/freebsd/tree/freebsd-9.1.0-1gig-pages-NOT-READY-2 > > >-- >Sebastian Kuzminsky >
That is cool. What type of applications can take advantage of the 1Gb page size? And is it transparent? Or applications need to be modified? Thanks, Patrick Dung _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
