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Alan Cox on FreeBSD

Posted Feb 23, 2010 5:22 UTC (Tue) by man_ls (guest, #15091)
In reply to: Huge pages part 1 (Introduction) by nix
Parent article: Huge pages part 1 (Introduction)

You are probably thinking of this excellent LWN article from 2007 and the excellent Navarro paper (with a contribution by Alan Cox). The fact that they decided to bring transparent huge pages support to FreeBSD and not to Linux is funny, considering.

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Alan Cox on FreeBSD

Posted Feb 23, 2010 6:10 UTC (Tue) by viro (subscriber, #7872) [Link]

ac != alc... IOW, it's not who you probably think it is.

Alan Cox on FreeBSD

Posted Feb 23, 2010 21:53 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I wish I had been thinking of that paper, but I had no idea it existed.
Unfortunately all the links to it appear dead :( 10.1.1.14.2514 is not a
valid DOI as far as I can tell, and the source link throws an error page
at me...

Alan Cox on FreeBSD

Posted Feb 24, 2010 19:37 UTC (Wed) by biged (subscriber, #50106) [Link]

Try here: http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi02/tech/full_papers/nava...

Alan Cox on FreeBSD

Posted Feb 24, 2010 22:47 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Yay, thank you!