"Raghu R. Arur" <rra2002@cs.columbia.edu> writes: > hi, > > How are tlb misses handled in linux? In x86 the hardware handles the miss by looking up the translation in the page tables, starting with the pgd pointer stored in cr3. > are tlb misses accounted as minor faults ?? In the above case, I don't think so, since the page fault handler isn't invoked. -- --Ed L Cashin | PGP public key: ecashin@uga.edu | 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/
