From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger-Tang Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 02:18:16 +0000 Subject: Re: [RFC] 4-level page table directories. Message-Id: List-Id: References: <20051027041709.GA13193@attica.americas.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20051027041709.GA13193@attica.americas.sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On 10/28/05, Luck, Tony 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 -- Mosberger Consulting LLC, voice/fax: 510-744-9372, http://www.mosberger-consulting.com/ 35706 Runckel Lane, Fremont, CA 94536