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?

-- 
John Baldwin


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