> don't want to upgrade your CPU's, it's a _whole_ lot easier to just have a
> magic "map_large_page()" system call, and start using the 2MB page support
> of the x86.
>
> And no, this should NOT be a mmap.
>
> It's a magic x86-only system call,
> Making the _generic_ code jump through hoops because some stupid special
> case that nobody else is interested in is bad.
Actually, I suspect that MIPS, x86-64 and other
architectures are also interested ...
kind regards,
Rik
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