Multiple page size support on FreeBSD?

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Sun, 7 Apr 2013, Sebastian Feld wrote:

> Does FreeBSD support multiple page sizes in a single userland process
> like Solaris 11 does?

Superpage promotion happens automatically when consecutive data are 
accessed according to the proper heuristic.  As promotion is dynamic, 
necessarily a mixture of page sizes will be in use.  I'm not familiar with 
the Solaris 11 feature, so I can't say whether there is a direct parallel.

You may be interested in this talk by Kirk McKusick at BSDCan 2011 on the 
topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wIxny-n_Mg

-Ben Kaduk