public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Yuhong Bao <yuhongbao_386@hotmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	mingo@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ubuntu 32-bit, 32-bit PAE, 64-bit Kernel Benchmarks
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:49:06 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B511B12.6010208@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SNT125-W41CEF6892DBE0B1FD99B4AC3780@phx.gbl>

On 12/30/2009 05:29 PM, Yuhong Bao wrote:
> 
> Given that Linus was once talking about the performance penalties of PAE and HIGHMEM64G, perhaps you'd find these benchmarks done by Phoronix of interest:
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_32_pae
> 

The big difference isn't between HIGHMEM4G (no PAE) and HIGHMEM64G
(PAE), it's between HIGHMEM and !HIGHMEM.  That cutoff is ~892 MB for a
stock 32-bit kernel.

	-hpa

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-16  1:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-31  1:29 Ubuntu 32-bit, 32-bit PAE, 64-bit Kernel Benchmarks Yuhong Bao
2009-12-31  2:49 ` Bill Davidsen
2009-12-31  8:21   ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-12-31 16:32     ` Bill Davidsen
2009-12-31 17:49       ` Pedro Ribeiro
2009-12-31 18:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-03  3:39   ` Yuhong Bao
2010-01-16  0:48   ` Yuhong Bao
2010-01-16  1:49 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-01-16  2:06   ` Yuhong Bao
2010-01-16  3:47     ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-16  4:32       ` yuhongbao_386
2010-01-16  4:53     ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-16  6:17       ` yuhongbao_386
2010-01-16 17:59       ` Bill Davidsen
2010-01-17  9:26         ` matthieu castet
2010-01-31 17:03       ` Robert Hancock
2010-01-16 12:33   ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2010-01-16 12:57     ` Robert P. J. Day
2010-01-16 17:11       ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-01  1:31   ` Yuhong Bao
2010-03-01  1:38   ` Yuhong Bao
2010-01-16  8:46 ` Geert Uytterhoeven

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=4B511B12.6010208@zytor.com \
    --to=hpa@zytor.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=mingo@redhat.com \
    --cc=torvalds@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=yuhongbao_386@hotmail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox