Re: [PATCH 00/07][RFC] i386: NUMA emulation

David Lang
2005-10-03T15:03:44Z

On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Martin J. Bligh wrote:

> But that's not the same at all! ;-) PAE memory is the same speed as
> the other stuff. You just have a 3rd level of pagetables for everything.
> One could (correctly) argue it made *all* memory slower, but it does so
> in a uniform fashion.

is it? I've seen during the memory self-test at boot that machines slow
down noticably as they pass the 4G mark.

David Lang

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