> From: Jason Thorpe

[ Re vnode tables, etc. growing too big with large RAM ]

JT> EBD> What is the proper behavior?
JT> Buy yourself with a 64-bit address space... like an Opteron.

True, but an odd response for an OS that supports VAXen and Sun2; surely 
there's more interest in NetBSD on PAE systems. ;-)  It looks like 
FreeBSD has hard limits on vnodes and friends...

Browsing pmap code has me wondering about:

* Boot-selectable MMU
* Coalescing 4K pages into 2M/4M pages when possible for fewer PT
* Mapping with cache coloring considerations
* Per-CPU page lists to reduce locking
* PSE36
* Unified x86 (i386, i386 + PAE, aa64) MMU.

Any interest in any of the above?  Any recommended resources other than 
source and Google?


Eddy
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