From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 02 Sep 2004 13:26:52 +0100 (BST) Received: from alg145.algor.co.uk ([IPv6:::ffff:62.254.210.145]:55052 "EHLO dmz.algor.co.uk") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 2 Sep 2004 13:26:48 +0100 Received: from alg158.algor.co.uk ([62.254.210.158] helo=olympia.mips.com) by dmz.algor.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C2qqL-0001pr-00; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 13:37:33 +0100 Received: from olympia.mips.com ([192.168.192.128] helo=boris) by olympia.mips.com with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1C2qfi-0001L1-00; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 13:26:34 +0100 From: Dominic Sweetman MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16695.4428.432876.304398@mips.com> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 13:25:48 +0100 To: Ralf Baechle Cc: Dominic Sweetman , Emmanuel Michon , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: TLB dimensioning In-Reply-To: <20040901233550.GA5721@linux-mips.org> References: <1094033224.20643.1402.camel@nikita.france.sdesigns.com> <16693.52862.859233.198626@doms-laptop.algor.co.uk> <20040901233550.GA5721@linux-mips.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 15) "Security Through Obscurity" XEmacs Lucid X-MTUK-Scanner: Found to be clean X-MTUK-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-4.849, required 4, AWL, BAYES_00) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 5771 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: dom@mips.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Ralf Baechle (ralf@linux-mips.org) writes: > The kernel's performance also relies on TLB performance. > > The wired register is making it easy to test performance of kernel and > application with a reduced size TLB; maybe I should make that a kernel > feature. An excellent suggestion.