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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:05:53 +0000
Subject: Re: larger default page sizes...
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To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, clameter@sgi.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org

Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> writes:
> 
> 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.

Do you have some idea where the improvement mainly comes from?
Is it TLB misses or reduced in kernel overhead? Ok I assume both
play together but which part of the equation is more important?

-Andi