Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Jun 2004 08:00:53 -0700 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Permit inode & dentry hash tables to be allocated > MAX_ORDER size |
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>> Since vmalloc() maps the pages with small pagetable entries (unlike most >> of the rest of the kernel address space), do you think the interleaving >> will outweigh any negative TLB effects? > > I think so, yes (assuming you run the benchmark on all CPUs)
On the other hand, there's no reason we can't hack up a version of vmalloc to use large pages, and interleave only based on that.
M.
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