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From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: Jesse Pollard <pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil>,
	ttabi@interactivesi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What is the truth about Linux 2.4's RAM limitations?
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 15:35:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B4B58FE.642136EB@didntduck.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200107101812.NAA01171@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil> <3B4B4966.996DD91E@didntduck.org> <20010711064355.F32421@weta.f00f.org>

Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:28:54PM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote:
> 
>     Jesse Pollard wrote:
> 
>         > If the entire page table were given to a user, then a full cache
>         > flush would have to be done on every context switch and system
>         > call. That would be very slow, but would allow a full 4G address
>         > for the user.
> 
>     A full cache flush would be needed at every entry into the kernel,
>     including hardware interrupts.  Very poor for performance.
> 
> Why would a cache flush be necessary at all? I assume ia32 caches
> where physically not virtually mapped?

I meant TLB flush, sorry.

--

				Brian Gerst

  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-10 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-10 18:12 What is the truth about Linux 2.4's RAM limitations? Jesse Pollard
2001-07-10 18:22 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-07-10 18:28 ` Brian Gerst
2001-07-10 18:43   ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-10 19:35     ` Brian Gerst [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-11  4:31 alad
2001-07-10 21:49 Jesse Pollard
2001-07-10 22:07 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-07-10 18:38 Jesse Pollard
2001-07-10 19:14 ` Mark H. Wood
2001-07-09 21:29 Jesse Pollard
2001-07-10 17:01 ` Timur Tabi
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.32.0107091250170.25061-100000@maus.spack.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2001-07-09 21:03 ` Andi Kleen
2001-07-09 20:01 Adam Shand
2001-07-09 21:15 ` Brian Gerst
2001-07-09 21:18 ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-09 22:17 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-07-10 13:49   ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-10 17:03     ` Timur Tabi
2001-07-10 17:35       ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-07-10 18:01         ` Timur Tabi
2001-07-10 18:08         ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-07-10 18:45           ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-07-10 19:26             ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-07-10 23:56             ` Jesse Pollard
2001-07-10 20:19         ` Malcolm Beattie
2001-07-10  3:01 ` jlnance
2001-07-10  3:29   ` Michael Bacarella
2001-07-16  8:37   ` Ingo Oeser

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