Large virtual page size support.
Julian Elischer
julian at elischer.org
Tue Jan 17 13:48:46 PST 2006
Julian Elischer wrote:
> Jeff Roberson wrote:
>
>> I have implemented support in the vm for PAGE_SIZE values which are a
>> multiple of the hardware page size. This is primarily useful for two
>> things:
>
>
>
> Mach (and the VM system we inherrited from it) had this. I beieve it
> was removed with teh comment
> "If we need this and someone is willing to support it it can be added
> back" .
I can't see any record of it in our CVS files but I distinctly remember
it in MACH. Not sure when it was
removed.
>
> It always seemed like in interesting idea and I'm happy to see that it
> is still being looked at.
>
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