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Huge pages part 2: Interfaces

Posted Feb 26, 2010 6:21 UTC (Fri) by dkg (subscriber, #55359)
Parent article: Huge pages part 2: Interfaces

The article says:

If one wanted to use 16GB pages as supported on later versions of POWER for example

But surely it means 16MB ?

hugetlbpage.txt makes no mention of an arch with 16GB page sizes.

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Huge pages part 2: Interfaces

Posted Feb 26, 2010 9:12 UTC (Fri) by hppnq (guest, #14462) [Link]

No, you can actually have 16GB pages on recent power systems. See here for instance.