Re: TLB entries > 4kb

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
13 Feb 1998 01:53:16 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980212185923.27931A-100000@chiara.csoma.elte.hu>
By author: MOLNAR Ingo <mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> i tried to hack this half a year ago, but had to find out that 4MB pages
> are only valid for kernel mappings, which means we'd have to make X a ring
> 0 process too ...
>

Why? It doesn't seem so difficult to make whatever creates the
mappings recognize when you have a case appropriate for a 4 MB
mapping.

-hpa

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