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From: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
To: Wolfgang Grandegger <wolfgang.grandegger@bluewin.ch>
Cc: Dan Malek <dan@embeddededge.com>, linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: 405 TLB miss reduction
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 16:48:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FD89FC3.3020301@jonmasters.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FD84905.5090802@bluewin.ch>



Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:

| We have been surprised, that CONFIG_PIN_TLB was able to reduce the page
| miss rate already by approx. 40%. We are also working on the
| optimization/tuning of our application and likely there we can gain more
| than by further squeezing the TBL management of the Linux kernel, I agree.

I noticed a possible improvement in performance however have not yet
done a set of tests to back this up. I saw the huge TLB stuff in
2.6.0-test11 and nearly fell off my chair - can someone here provide
some reference to read on this so I can be more useful talking about it?

Jon.


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-11 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-10 14:43 405 TLB miss reduction Wolfgang Grandegger
2003-12-10 16:03 ` Matt Porter
2003-12-11  9:06   ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2003-12-11 15:46     ` Dan Malek
2003-12-11 17:45     ` Matt Porter
2003-12-12  9:50       ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2003-12-15 11:26       ` Joakim Tjernlund
2003-12-10 17:08 ` Dan Malek
2003-12-11 10:37   ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2003-12-11 16:48     ` Jon Masters [this message]
2003-12-11 16:56       ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2003-12-11 17:06         ` Jon Masters
2003-12-11 17:36           ` Matt Porter
2003-12-11 16:44 ` Jon Masters

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