RE: large page patch (fwd) (fwd)

From: Luck, Tony (tony.luck@intel.com)
Date: Tue Aug 06 2002 - 15:38:09 EST


> > 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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