Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: i686 SMP systems with more then 12 GB ram with 2.4.x kernel ? | Date | Sun, 6 Jan 2002 16:16:07 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> up as a 5% performance loss on normal loads, and this would make it > worse. We're probably better off implementing PSE. Of course, making > these kinds of choices is hard without actual statistics of the > usage patterns we're targetting.
You don't neccessarily need PSE. Migrating to an option to support > 4K _virtual_ page size is more flexible for x86, although it would need glibc getpagesize() fixing I think, and might mean a few apps wouldnt run in that configuration.
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