Multiple page size support on FreeBSD?
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Wed Apr 10 14:43:12 UTC 2013
On Monday, April 08, 2013 6:39:31 am Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > Superpage promotion happens automatically when consecutive data are accessed
> > according to the proper heuristic.
>
> and in practice - unless there are only few processes, never really works.
>
> this is a result of my own tests.
How do your tests work? Do you examine PTEs directly to check for superpages
or are you relying on the vm.pmap.pde sysctls?
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John Baldwin
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