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==Hardware==

* PAE, page tables, PTEs, TLB -- explain ''FIXME''

* PAE, page tables, PTEs, TLB, MMU -- explain ''FIXME''

==Huge Pages==

Making pages larger means fewer TLB misses for a given TLB size (due to more pages being supportable in the same amount of memory, due to narrower page identifiers), large mapping/releasing operations will be faster (due to fewer page table entries needing to be handled), and less memory is devoted to page table entries for a given amount of memory being indexed. The downside is possible wastage of main memory (due to pages not being used as completely). A 2002 paper from Navarro et al at Rice proposed transparent operating system support: "[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.3.2392 Transparent Operating System Support for Superpages]". FreeBSD and Solaris support large pages transparently, while applications must explicitly take advantage of them on Linux (through at least 2.6.30).

Making pages larger means fewer TLB misses for a given TLB size (due to more pages being supportable in the same amount of memory, due to narrower page identifiers), large mapping/releasing operations will be faster (due to fewer page table entries needing to be handled), and less memory is devoted to page table entries for a given amount of memory being indexed. The downside is possible wastage of main memory (due to pages not being used as completely). A 2002 paper from Navarro et al at Rice proposed transparent operating system support: "[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.3.2392 Transparent Operating System Support for Superpages]". FreeBSD and Solaris ("[http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0304/817-5917.pdf support large pages transparently, while applications must explicitly take advantage of them on Linux (through at least 2.6.30).

===Linux===

* They were a [http://lwn.net/Articles/40840/ 2003 Kernel Summit] topic, after seeing first [http://kerneltrap.org/node/418 introduction] in Linux 2.5.36 ([http://linuxgazette.net/155/krishnakumar.html LinuxGazette] primer article)

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 ==Hardware==
-* PAE, page tables, PTEs, TLB -- explain ''FIXME''
+* PAE, page tables, PTEs, TLB, MMU -- explain ''FIXME''
 ==Huge Pages==
-Making pages larger means fewer TLB misses for a given TLB size (due to more pages being supportable in the same amount of memory, due to narrower page identifiers), large mapping/releasing operations will be faster (due to fewer page table entries needing to be handled), and less memory is devoted to page table entries for a given amount of memory being indexed. The downside is possible wastage of main memory (due to pages not being used as completely). A 2002 paper from Navarro et al at Rice proposed transparent operating system support: "[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.3.2392 Transparent Operating System Support for Superpages]". FreeBSD and Solaris support large pages transparently, while applications must explicitly take advantage of them on Linux (through at least 2.6.30).
+Making pages larger means fewer TLB misses for a given TLB size (due to more pages being supportable in the same amount of memory, due to narrower page identifiers), large mapping/releasing operations will be faster (due to fewer page table entries needing to be handled), and less memory is devoted to page table entries for a given amount of memory being indexed. The downside is possible wastage of main memory (due to pages not being used as completely). A 2002 paper from Navarro et al at Rice proposed transparent operating system support: "[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.3.2392 Transparent Operating System Support for Superpages]". FreeBSD and Solaris ("[http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0304/817-5917.pdf support large pages transparently, while applications must explicitly take advantage of them on Linux (through at least 2.6.30).
 ===Linux===
 * They were a [http://lwn.net/Articles/40840/ 2003 Kernel Summit] topic, after seeing first [http://kerneltrap.org/node/418 introduction] in Linux 2.5.36 ([http://linuxgazette.net/155/krishnakumar.html LinuxGazette] primer article)