Messages in this thread | | | From | "Luck, Tony" <> | Subject | RE: large page patch (fwd) (fwd) | Date | Tue, 6 Aug 2002 13:38:09 -0700 |
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> > 4GB TLB entry size ??? > I assume you mean 4MB TLB entry size or did I fall > into a coma for 10 years
That wasn't a typo ... Itanium2 supports page sizes up to 4 Gigabytes. Databases (well, Oracle for sure) want to use those huge TLB entries to map their multi-gigabyte shared memory areas.
-Tony
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