Michael Broughton wrote: > I think IA-64 supports a few page sizes, but none of them are above 64K, > as far as I know. > > I have heard that Windows can use 'super pages' which are 4M, but I > don't think that is the normal case for user space. Whoops. You're right; I'd misread the documentation and conflated IA64 pages with 'huge pages', which is a Linux kernel feature to save TLB space; plus, IA32 can be configured to use 4MB small pages instead of 4kB ones, which must be where Windows super pages come from. -- ╭─┈David Given┈──McQ─╮ "A line dancer near a graduated cylinder, the │┈ dg@cowlark.com┈┈┈┈│ blithe spirit inside some wheelbarrow, and a tomato │┈(dg@tao-group.com)┈│ are what made America great!" --- received via spam ╰─┈www.cowlark.com┈──╯
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