Re: 4M page size

Scott wrote: Petri Helenius wrote: FreeBSD/i386 uses 4MB pages to hold the kernel text and data, but there is no way (to my knowledge) to ask the pmap layer for a 4MB page after that either from the kernel or from userland. However, it's also my understanding that most non-Xeon CPUs only have a 4k

Re: 4M page size

Petri Helenius wrote: Is there a way currently to utilize 4M page size with FreeBSD for large data set programs (to optimize TLB misses)? Pete FreeBSD/i386 uses 4MB pages to hold the kernel text and data, but there is no way (to my knowledge) to ask the pmap layer for a 4MB page after that

4M page size

Is there a way currently to utilize 4M page size with FreeBSD for large data set programs (to optimize TLB misses)? Pete ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any