Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jan 2002 08:46:33 -0500 | From | Brian Gerst <> | Subject | Re: Is there anyway to use 4M pages on x86 linux in user level? |
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DervishD wrote: > > Hi Yinlei :) > > >Since x86 architecutre has a 4M page feature > > I may certainly be wrong but... is not 4k OR 16M the page size on > x86 arch? I didn't know about 4M page. Could you send me the GTD > settings for that? (Just curiosity :)))
The large page size is 4MB, except in PAE mode where they are 2MB. Normal pages are always 4KB. Noting in the GDT affects the page size.
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