Actually, this is one of the reasons there was a lot of research into
using sub-page clustering for large mappings in the TLB. Basically
how this worked is that for a superpage, you could stick multiple
sub-mappings into the entry such that you didn't need a fully
physically contiguous superpage.
It's talked about in one of the Talluri papers.
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