Re: x86 Page Sizes

[William Lee Irwin III]

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