Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> writes: ... > - modern CPUs run very slowly when segmentation is enabled > (or rather, the segmentation logic is bypassed when all > the segments span the magical full 4GB) That's very interesting. Could you be more specific or point me to a thread or reference where examples of this slowdown are discussed in more detail? -- --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/
