From: Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl>
To: Petko Manolov <petkan@varel.bg>
Cc: Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: 4M kernel pages
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 19:43:41 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981116194249.23633A-100000@mirkwood.dummy.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <364FE29E.2CF14EEA@varel.bg>
On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Petko Manolov wrote:
> I red in the intel docs that it is possile to have mixed
> 4K and 4M pages for pentium+ machines. Also we have less
> TLB misses when the kernel is in 4M page. I know Linus
> don't like the idea of mixing different page sizes but
> if this a improvemet...
Been there, done that. Linux has had this implemented for
ages, in fact it's such a long time ago that I don't
remember when it was :)
Rik -- slowly getting used to dvorak kbd layout...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-11-16 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-11-13 12:04 May be stupid question ;-) Petko Manolov
1998-11-13 14:12 ` Rik van Riel
1998-11-16 7:44 ` Petko Manolov
1998-11-16 8:30 ` 4M kernel pages Petko Manolov
[not found] ` <wd8emr3yfeu.fsf@parate.irisa.fr>
1998-11-16 15:06 ` Petko Manolov
1998-11-16 15:27 ` David Mentr\'e
1998-11-16 16:50 ` Petko Manolov
1998-11-16 18:18 ` David Mentr\'e
1998-11-17 9:30 ` Petko Manolov
1998-11-16 18:43 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
1998-11-17 9:34 ` Petko Manolov
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