On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 11:31:58AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > The main changes in this cycle are support for three new, complex hardware > features of x86 CPUs: > > - Add 5-level paging support, which is a new hardware feature on upcoming > Intel > CPUs allowing up to 128 PB of virtual address space and 4 PB of physical > RAM > space - a 256-fold increase over the old limits.
Minor nitpick: I don't see where "256-fold" comes from. Virtual address space increased from 256 TB to 128 PB -- 512 times. Physical: 64 TB -> 4 PB -- 64 times. -- Kirill A. Shutemov
