Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Mar 2002 12:53:29 -0700 | From | yodaiken@fsmlabs ... | Subject | Re: [Lse-tech] Re: 10.31 second kernel compile |
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On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 11:16:16AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Show me a semi-sane architecture that _matters_ from a commercial angle.
I thought we were into this for the pure technical thrill-)
> > is there a 64 bit machine with hardware search of pagetables? Even ibm > > only has a hardware search of hash tables - which we agree are simply > > a means of making your hardware TLB larger and slower. > > ia64 does the same mistake, I think.
I finally let myself read part of the hammer spec - and it's got that 4 level - except for2MB pages where it is 3 level.
> page tables. And I personally like how Hammer looks more than the ia64 VM > horror.
No kidding. But I want TLB load instructions.
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