> Do they aggressively try and merge the x86 4k pages into 16k pages with some s...

		zozbot234 on April 22, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What's new in CPUs since the 80s? (2015) > Do they aggressively try and merge the x86 4k pages into 16k pages with some slow back-up when they can't do that? This does not seem feasible because the 16k pages on ARM are not "huge" pages; it's a completely different arrangement of the virtual address space and page tables. The two are not interoperable.

Perhaps that explains the odd cache sizes. Map x86 onto it's own cache when necessary.