On 04/17/2010 10:05 PM, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:18:12 +0300
Correct. We're trying to reduce suckage from 2 cache misses per
access (3 for virt), to 1 cache miss per access. We're also freeing
up space in the cache for data.
Saying the application already sucks isn't helping anything.
but the guy who's writing the application will already optimize for
this case...
I lost you. What is he optimizing for? 4k pages?
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