Re: x86 Page Sizes

William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Fri, 5 Jul 2002 23:22:44 -0700


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

On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 10:36:17AM +1000, john slee wrote:
> 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

This has been rehashed too many times. There is a nice table in Intel's
processor manuals (the 3rd volumes on System Programming) describing
which combinations of options give which page sizes.

Cheers,
Bill
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