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Windows has 4K, 2M, and 1G page sizes on x86-64.
by nullindividual 2y ago
Windows has 4K, 2M, and 1G page sizes on x86-64.
- CalChris 2y agoNormal, large and huge. But default normal pages (which is what Android is changing) are 4K. FWIW, Itanium and Alpha had 8K default pages. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20210510-00/?p=105200 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20210510-00/?p=10... I wonder why Microsoft stayed with 4K for AArch64.
- Kwpolska 2y agoMicrosoft wanted to make x86 compatibility as painless as possible. They adopted an ABI in which registers can be generally mapped 1:1 between the two architectures.
- nullindividual 2y agoI was confused as to why you were posting incorrect information when this thread already contained the correct information.
- baby_souffle 2y ago> and 1G page sizes on x86-64. I wonder who requested the 1G page size be implemented and what they use it for...
- Kwpolska 2y agoAnother thread says virtual machines.