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Date:      Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:48:35 -0600
From:      Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>
To:        Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez <rnsanchez@wait4.org>
Cc:        Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com>, Ulrich Spoerlein <uspoerlein@gmail.com>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: superpage plans
Message-ID:  <45663353.1040803@cs.rice.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20061123212952.f332a7ad.rnsanchez@wait4.org>
References:  <b1fa29170611220939g32469638ncf3a3ddd4bba3670@mail.gmail.com>	<45649E42.70409@cs.rice.edu>	<20061122201625.GC1522@roadrunner.q.local> <20061123212952.f332a7ad.rnsanchez@wait4.org>

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Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez wrote:

>On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:16:25 +0100
>Ulrich Spoerlein <uspoerlein@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>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?
>>    
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>
>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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>  
>
Yes, you are correct.

Regards,
Alan




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