Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Jul 2002 23:22:44 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: x86 Page Sizes |
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On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 08:35:05AM +0200, Peter Svensson wrote: >> The x86 cpus can use 4K or 4M pages in the hardware. The 4M pages are
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 10:36:17AM +1000, john slee wrote: > DDJ ran an article quite a few years on this very topic. i'm sure they > also mentioned that some processors (ppro/p2 onwards?) are capable of > 2MiB pages
This has been rehashed too many times. There is a nice table in Intel's processor manuals (the 3rd volumes on System Programming) describing which combinations of options give which page sizes.
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