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From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 02:30:35 +0000
Subject: [patch 0/2] remove per-cpu dtr requirement
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Here is a respin of previously posted patches that remove pinned
DTR per-cpu TLB requirement.  Instead we use DTC to map that
translation.

With these two patches, we measured substantial performance gain
on a database benchmark, in the vicinity of 1.6%. I've also done
extensive performance measurement on two other industry standard
benchmarks (cpu, java), and have found to have small gain on those
workloads.

Detail description in the follow on patches.

- Ken