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Re: [RFC] global page support
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Thomas Schwinge |
Subject: |
Re: [RFC] global page support |
Date: |
Sat, 23 Dec 2006 19:36:02 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.11 |
Hello!
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 12:45:11AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Global pages permit to keep the kernel pages in the TLB whatever the
> current process, here is a patch for supporting them. On my Pentium M, I
> get a 5% speedup on dd < /dev/zero bs=1 > /dev/null .
On my Athlon XP 1.6 GHz (or similar, I don't know...) I didn't notice any
speedup (compared to the current Debian package), but in contrast to the
Debian package I had the GCC smashing stack protection and the GNU Mach
kernel debugger enabled as well, so perhaps that drew it out again.
Nevertheless: thanks for installing the patch!
Regards,
Thomas
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