Subject: Re: TLB entries question
To: Alex Pelts <alexp@broadcom.com>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@NetBSD.org>
List: port-mips
Date: 12/15/2006 14:13:36
"Alex Pelts" wrote:
> I have a simple question about TLB entries. If you need to memory map
> area larger than page size does netbsd kernel allocate one tlb entry to
> describe entire area or multiple entries describing several pages of
> page size each?
NetBSD only ever uses 4kB pages.
If you're talking about non-KSEG0/1 kernel areas, using larger pages
shouldn't be an overly difficult project...
Simon.