Re: pud_bad vs pud_bad

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Thu Feb 05 2009 - 19:08:44 EST


Ingo Molnar wrote:
just the act of using PAE was measured to cause multi-percent slowdown in fork() and exec() latencies, etc. The pagetables are twice as large so is that really surprising?

Is there a similar slowdown running the CPU in 32 vs 64 bit mode? Or does having more/wider registers mitigate it?

J
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