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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Why preallocate pmd in x86 32-bit PAE?
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:53:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200711161653.00824.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <473DBB0C.2060808@zytor.com>

On Friday 16 November 2007 16:45:16 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> >> I think Jeremy's question was due to trying to reduce the 32/64-bit 
> >> differences.  Performance-wise, it might add a small amount to user 
> >> setup time (a typical 32-bit process will need all four, for the main 
> >> binary, libraries, stack and kernel, respectively) 
> > 
> > With the new top down mmap layout and standard 3:1 split it should typically 
> > only need two.
> > 
> 
> Well, three with the kernel.

I didn't count kernel because it is always fixed anyways and about zero
overhead for the normal setup case.

-Andi


  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-16 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-15 21:57 Why preallocate pmd in x86 32-bit PAE? Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-11-15 22:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-15 22:42   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-16  0:40     ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-11-16  0:41       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-16 11:16         ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-16 15:45           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-16 15:53             ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-11-16 16:10               ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-16 17:12   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-11-16 17:35     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-16 18:30       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-11-16 19:14       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-11-16 19:22         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-16 19:43           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-11-16 17:45     ` H. Peter Anvin

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