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The smallest page size tends to get entrenched in the rest of the system (for things like linker page sizes, IOMMU interfaces, etc.,); growing the smallest page
by bewaretheirs 2y ago
The smallest page size tends to get entrenched in the rest of the system (for things like linker page sizes, IOMMU interfaces, etc.,); growing the smallest page size might not be a viable option in existing systems and it might be easier to introduce intermediate-size TLB entries, perhaps formed by consolidating adjacent contiguous PTE's..