On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 03:48:11PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 02:37:18AM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > Cons: > > - increases TLB pressure; > > I generally don't like using 4k tlb entries ever. This only has the >From theory I would also prefer the 2MB huge page. But some numbers comparing between the two alternatives are definitely interesting. Numbers are often better than theory. > There would be a small cache benefit here... but even then some first > level caches are virtually indexed IIRC (always physically tagged to Modern x86 doesn't have virtually indexed caches. -Andi -- ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Speaking for myself only -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
