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From: Subrahmanyam Ongole <songole@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: x86-64: Kernel with large page size
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 17:50:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a8447f24050603175061598809@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi

When we run our application on AMD Opteron processors, we are seeing a
large number of   L1_AND_L2_DTLB_MISSES. We used oprofile to measure
these numbers.

We wanted to try with a bigger page size and see if we could bring it
down. TLB caches 4k page translations. I don't  know if larger page
size would even help here.

I  changed PAGE_SHIFT to 14 ( 16k page size ) in include/asm/page.h
and recompiled kernel and modules.   It crashed ( PANIC: early
exception ) at the very initial stage of loading the image.

I looked at some of the mailing list archives for any information on
this. I couldn't find anything on this subject . I appreciate any help
on this.

There seem to be two 2-4MB page translations in L1 TLB cache on AMD
machines. Will it be used only when the page size is 2MB or can they
be used with smaller page sizes too.

Thanks for your help.

Regards
Subramanyam

             reply	other threads:[~2005-06-04  0:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-04  0:50 Subrahmanyam Ongole [this message]
2005-06-04  0:59 ` x86-64: Kernel with large page size William Lee Irwin III
2005-06-04  2:28   ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-11  9:58 ` Andi Kleen

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