From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] i386: Remove page sized slabs for pgds and pmds
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:59:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070329005902.GH2986@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070329012859.53bef09a@the-village.bc.nu>
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 02:38:55PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>>> No that was described in the patch. Quote:
>>> "i386 only provides support for caching constructed pgd and pmds. These
>>> are comparatively rare to ptes so it is no surprise that the current
>>> approach has only minimal effect. ...."
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:28:59AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Whatever it was originally for and public or not, the above isn't true
> for some non Intel products...
Sorry if the descriptions here are misleading. This is basically an
attempt to have the kernel keep preconstructed pagetables around so
that the bitblitting hits need not be repetitively taken during fork()
and faults, where counterarguments revolve around whether this is
actually a hit at all and whether it's significant. It's not related to
the transparent quasi-ASID/ASN affairs AMD has based on %cr3 contents.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-29 0:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-28 20:12 [RFC] i386: Remove page sized slabs for pgds and pmds Christoph Lameter
2007-03-28 20:45 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-28 21:05 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-28 21:16 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-28 21:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-28 22:37 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-28 23:44 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-29 0:53 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-29 1:09 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-29 1:17 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2007-03-28 20:50 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-28 21:00 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-28 21:24 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-28 21:38 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-28 22:01 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-28 22:22 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-29 0:28 ` Alan Cox
2007-03-29 0:59 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2007-03-28 22:26 ` Chris Wright
2007-03-28 22:33 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-28 22:45 ` Chris Wright
2007-03-28 23:42 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-03-28 22:47 ` Chris Wright
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