Re: [RFC] 4-level page table directories.

David Mosberger-Tang
2005-10-29T02:18:16Z

On 10/28/05, Luck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:

> The worst-case loser from this might be a benchmark that runs
> oodles of small processes (partly from the overhead of the extra
> page, and partly because I suspect that fork/exec/exit might see
> the most impact). So I'd like to see some AIM7 numbers too.

And I would want to see numbers for the "RANDOM" benchmark (from the
HPCC benchmark suite) for huge data sets (multi-gigabyte; something
big enough such that not even the page tables fit in the caches).

--david

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