Re: larger default page sizes...

From: David Mosberger-Tang <dmosberger_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2008-03-26 11:34:13
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
>  The main issue is that, at least on Itanium, you have to turn off the hardware
>  page table walker for hugepages if you want to mix superpages and
>  standard pages in the same region. (The long format VHPT isn't the
>  panacea we'd like it to be because the hash function it uses depends
>  on the page size).

Why not just repeat the PTEs for super-pages?  That won't work for
huge pages, but for superpages that are a reasonable multiple (e.g.,
16-times) the base-page size, it should work nicely.

  --david
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