Daniele Bellucci <bellucda@tiscali.it> (by way of Daniele Bellucci <bellucda@tiscali.it>) writes: > Hi, > i know that a tipical TLB entry consists of two parts: < key , value > > I wish to know under IA32/Linux: > what is the key? I looked in the pentium manuals (they're great for answering this kind of thing), and it doesn't really come out and say the key is a virtual address, but I am pretty sure it is. > ..and (because you are at it) what is the value? This they say explicitly. It's a page table entry or page directory entry. -- --Ed L Cashin PGP public key: http://noserose.net/e/pgp/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
