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From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Subject: RE: large page patch (fwd) (fwd)
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 13:38:09 -0700 
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> > 4GB TLB entry size ??? 
> I assume you mean 4MB TLB entry size or did I fall
> into a coma for 10 years

That wasn't a typo ... Itanium2 supports page sizes up
to 4 Gigabytes.  Databases (well, Oracle for sure) want
to use those huge TLB entries to map their multi-gigabyte
shared memory areas.

-Tony