Re: x86 Page Sizes

john slee (indigoid@higherplane.net)
Sat, 6 Jul 2002 10:36:17 +1000


On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 08:35:05AM +0200, Peter Svensson wrote:
> The x86 cpus can use 4K or 4M pages in the hardware. The 4M pages are

DDJ ran an article quite a few years on this very topic. i'm sure they
also mentioned that some processors (ppro/p2 onwards?) are capable of
2MiB pages

j.

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