On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 05:41:35PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: > Perhaps, he talks about support of large pages (2M) and related improvements > in > TLB performance. If so, he (and you) may read about 'superpages' feature of > FreeBSD. > I am not sure if it is enabled by default in 8.0, you can check > vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled.
On 8.0-RELEASE and later, they are. Line 183: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/amd64/amd64/pmap.c?annotate=1.667.2.12 Commit where they got enabled by default (approx. 16 months ago): http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/amd64/amd64/pmap.c#rev1.646 -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
