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Date:      Fri, 20 Jun 2003 10:02:24 +0100
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/amd64 pmap.c
Message-ID:  <200306201002.24956.dfr@nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <ybs1xxpsj4n.wl@ett.sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
References:  <200306191214.h5JCEcjg028827@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030619190204.B74362A7EA@canning.wemm.org> <ybs1xxpsj4n.wl@ett.sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>

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On Friday 20 June 2003 1:11 am, Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote:
> At Thu, 19 Jun 2003 12:02:04 -0700,
>
> Peter Wemm wrote:
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     sys/amd64/amd64      pmap.c
> > >   Log:
> > >   Fix direct map page table for 2GB+ physical memory.
> >
> > Thank you! :-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -Peter
>
> Do you have any plan to increase KVA up to 512GB?
> struct vm_page consumes 250MB space for 8GB memory.

Is there a direct-mapped region on amd64? The vm_page arrays come out of 
the direct-mapped regions on alpha and ia64 (don't know about sparc64) 
and this makes a big difference to KVA usage and probably to TLB 
pressure too.

-- 
Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
					Phone: +44 20 8348 6160




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