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From: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 20:17:32 +0000
Subject: Re: Long Format VHPT patches
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On 8/25/2004 10:01 AM, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 24, 2004 7:34 pm, Ian Wienand wrote:
>> 11-lf-VHPT-kconfig.patch
> 
> Given your conclusions in the paper, would it make sense to unconditionally 
> switch to long format VHPT?  It would simplify things a little and maybe 
> avoid some trouble in the future.
> 

When the super page optimizations are implemented, long format might be a more attractive option. Without it, the increased cache footprint of the long format pte is not compensated by the benefits on the workloads we tried.

	-Arun