Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:35:40 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Swap |
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On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au> > Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 14:23:38 -0800 > > Could you please explain further? What's more expensive > than the copy? > > TLB misses add to the cost, and this overhead is more than > "noise".
Well, this could have something to do with the fact that our page fault handler only maps in _1_ page at a time, so we're trapping into the pagefault handler every 4kB...
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