borasahin@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On x86 architecture generally 4kb and 4mb page size is supported..2mb with
PAE enabled..
I want to know that in which scenarios the pages with size 4mb and 2mb are
used?
e.g. for kernel code and data.
Also for hugetlbfs, which is used for shared memory segments
by some databases. Possibly other software too.
There appears to be a bit of a community around huge pages:
http://linux-mm.org/HugePages
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