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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:32:22 +0000
Subject: Re: ia64 mmu_gather question
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On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 16:07 -0600, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:
> Do keep in mind that there is a hardware walker, too! ;-)

Yup, I know. Your TLB miss rate gets lower as you fault in the page
table pages, though it's still higher than a full tree walker. How big
is the TLB btw ?

Ben.