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, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>