On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 14:29 +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote: > 4kB pages: 444.051s user + 34.406s system time > 64kB pages: 419.963s user + 16.869s system time > > That's nearly 10% faster with 64kB pages -- on a kernel compile. Can you do the same thing with the 4k MMU pages and 64k PAGE_SIZE? Wouldn't that easily break out whether the advantage is from the TLB or from less kernel overhead? -- Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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