Re: larger default page sizes...

Dave Hansen
2008-03-25T18:27:45Z

On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 14:29 +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> 4kB pages: 444.051s user + 34.406s system time
> 64kB pages: 419.963s user + 16.869s system time
>
> That's nearly 10% faster with 64kB pages -- on a kernel compile.

Can you do the same thing with the 4k MMU pages and 64k PAGE_SIZE?
Wouldn't that easily break out whether the advantage is from the TLB or
from less kernel overhead?

-- Dave