About Transparent Superpages and Non-transparent superapges

Cedric Blancher cedric.blancher at gmail.com
Sat Sep 21 02:03:24 UTC 2013


On 19 September 2013 22:34, Sebastian Kuzminsky <S.Kuzminsky at f5.com> wrote:
> On Sep 18, 2013, at 10:08 , Patrick Dung wrote:
>
>> I have seen somewhere that superpages support was being developed in HEAD too.
>> Any insight on it?
>
>
> We at Line Rate (now F5) are developing support for 1 Gig superpages on amd64.  We're basing our work on 9.1.0 for now.
>
> An early preview is available here:
>
> https://github.com/Seb-LineRate/freebsd/tree/freebsd-9.1.0-1gig-pages-NOT-READY-2

Have you ever asked Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> to look at
your work? He worked on MPSS (multiple page size support) on Solaris
and did a lot of the optimisation work there.

Ced
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