Large virtual page size support.
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Jan 17 14:18:59 PST 2006
In message <43CD612E.2060002 at elischer.org>, Julian Elischer writes:
>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" .
It was a VAX artifact and not very usable. I belive we have a couple
of comments and macros which still talk about "clicks".
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