From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lin.varel.bg (root@lin.varel.bg [212.50.6.9]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA03376 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 10:06:53 -0500 Message-ID: <36503F86.FC08594@varel.bg> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 17:06:46 +0200 From: Petko Manolov MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: 4M kernel pages References: <364FE29E.2CF14EEA@varel.bg> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: "David Mentr\\'e" Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: David Mentr\'e wrote: > > Petko Manolov writes: > > > Also we have less TLB misses when the kernel is in 4M page. > > The kernel is already using 4M pages (for a long time now). Yes, i know that. I took a look at linux/arch/i386/mm/init.c - paging_init(). Yes we rise PSE bit in cr4 but don't rise the PS bit in the pade directory entry for the kernel - which means the kernel is in 4K pages. regards -- Petko Manolov - petkan@varel.bg http://www.varel.bg/~petkan -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org