superpage plans

[Kip Macy]

On 11/22/06, Alan Cox <alc at cs.rice.edu> 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.


That is great to hear. I'm waiting on pins and needles for this. With 4 page
sizes and comparatively small TLBs, the T1 will likely benefit greatly from
your work.

 -Kip