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From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 18:22:51 +0000
Subject: RE: [RFC] 4-level page table directories.
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Robin Holt wrote on Wednesday, November 09, 2005 4:12 AM
> > measured 221 clocks with 3-level page table, versus 298 clocks with
> 
> This looks like approx the amount of stall you would see from a cacheline
> fill.  Is this value the average of a large number of samples a single
> sample.

The value was averaged over 500,000 samples.

- Ken