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Huge pages part 1 (Introduction)

Huge pages part 1 (Introduction)

Posted Feb 20, 2010 16:31 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Huge pages part 1 (Introduction) by farnz
Parent article: Huge pages part 1 (Introduction)

Oh, hell, I forgot about the split TLB. That makes the whole resource
allocation problem drastically harder :/ Still, does the kernel need more
than one or two entries? If you're not using hugepages currently, it seems
to me that some of those hugepage TLB entries are actually wasted...


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