Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Mar 2002 13:36:21 -0700 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: [Lse-tech] Re: 10.31 second kernel compile |
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Linus Torvalds writes: > Instead of large pages, you should be asking for larger and wider TLB's > (for example, nothign says that a TLB entry has to be a single page: > people already do the kind of "super-entries", where one TLB entry > actually contains data for 4 or 8 aligned pages, so you get the _effect_ > of a 32kB page that really is 8 consecutive 4kB pages). > > Such a "wide" TLB entry has all the advantages of small pages (no > memory fragmentation, backwards compatibility etc), while still > being able to load 64kB worth of translations in one go.
These are contiguous physical pages, or just logical (virtual) pages?
Regards,
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