On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:05:31 +0300 Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? not totally sucking on cache misses, eg trying to do data locality etc -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>