So is there no way that i can account for tlb misses. For my purpose i need to catch the tlb misses. Is there no way in x86 to catch the tlb misses. Is there a documentation about the tlbs anywhere. I searched thru intel documentation, but dint get any useful info. thanks a lot, Raghu On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Ed L Cashin wrote: > "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/
