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Re: large pages (amd64)

by Joerg Sonnenberger :: Rate this Message:

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On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 08:14:24PM -0400, Nathanael Hoyle wrote:
> Just to be clear, since you say i386 (I presume you mean architecture),  
> I believe the Physical Address Extensions which allowed 2MB Page Size  
> bit to be set was introduced with Pentium Pro. Processors prior to this  
> were limited to standard 4KB pages.

PSE != PAE != PSE36. Pentium Pro sounds about right though.

Joerg
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