Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Memory Management - BSD vs Linux | Date | 13 Aug 1997 22:11:44 GMT |
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Followup to: <199708131752.KAA13458@connectnet1.connectnet.com> By author: Darin Johnson <darin@connectnet.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Ah, this makes more sense now. I assumed TLB's were always > automatically managed, and didn't realize some chips might not > do this. >
No, and it is becoming less common on RISC chips, at least. The Alpha does TLB reloads in the PALcode (Privileged Architecture Library), which is software, although running in a special privileged mode -- in some sense similar to SMM on Intel chips.
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