About Transparent Superpages and Non-transparent superapges

[Patrick Dung]

>From: Sebastian Kuzminsky <S.Kuzminsky at F5.com>
>To: Patrick Dung <patrick_dkt at yahoo.com.hk>
>Cc: "freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org>; "ivoras at freebsd.org" <ivoras at freebsd.org>
>Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 4:34 AM
>Subject: Re: About Transparent Superpages and Non-transparent superapges
>
>On Sep 18, 2013, at 10:08 , Patrick Dung wrote:
>
>> I have seen somewhere that superpages support was being developed in HEAD too.
>> Any insight on it?
>
>
>We at Line Rate (now F5) are developing support for 1 Gig superpages on amd64.  We're basing our work on 9.1.0 for now.
>
>An early preview is available here:
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>https://github.com/Seb-LineRate/freebsd/tree/freebsd-9.1.0-1gig-pages-NOT-READY-2
>
>
>-- 
>Sebastian Kuzminsky
>

That is cool.

What type of applications can take advantage of the 1Gb page size?
And is it transparent? Or applications need to be modified?

Thanks,
Patrick Dung