superpage plans

[Ivan Voras]

Alan Cox wrote:
> Kip Macy wrote:
> 
>> Do you have any thoughts on when superpage support might go into
>> -CURRENT?
>>
> I plan to do it over the Christmas holidays.  I will merge it in three
> stages: First, the new buddy-style physical memory allocator
> (vm/vm_phys.c).  Second, the superpage reservation system.  Third, pmap
> support for individual architectures.

I see there's two sort-of related things that touch the physical memory
allocator - NUMA (AMD) and memory hot-plug (for SPARC & probably
Itanium). Will superpages or the work done for them help build these
features?


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