On Sun, 7 Apr 2013, Sebastian Feld wrote:

Does FreeBSD support multiple page sizes in a single userland process
like Solaris 11 does?

Superpage promotion happens automatically when consecutive data are accessed according to the proper heuristic. As promotion is dynamic, necessarily a mixture of page sizes will be in use. I'm not familiar with the Solaris 11 feature, so I can't say whether there is a direct parallel.

You may be interested in this talk by Kirk McKusick at BSDCan 2011 on the topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wIxny-n_Mg

-Ben Kaduk
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