superpage plans
Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez
rnsanchez at wait4.org
Thu Nov 23 15:29:58 PST 2006
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:16:25 +0100
Ulrich Spoerlein <uspoerlein at gmail.com> wrote:
> what performance impact do you estimate for "older" processors? I know
> very little about superpages, so I assume that, e.g., earlier Pentiums
> don't support it? Where do you think the break off point lies?
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but if superpages means using 4 MB TLB pages,
then it is quite old (~1993) and every pentium (i586 or newer) should support
it.
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Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez <rnsanchez@{gmail.com,wait4.org}>
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