Re: 4MB pages and framebuffer access, x11perf results, 2.1.125

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Fri, 30 Oct 1998 00:26:15 +0100 (CET)


On 29 Oct 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>Note that you don't need a P6 to test this: Pentiums will also support
>the 4M page (not the global thing, but you can run your own tests with
>that bug fixed).

I know, but if the improvement would be 0 here (note is an example), that
would be not exaustive to be enabled to say that the improvement is 0 on
P6 too. I'll hope to have some time soon to play with the 4mbyte page
table though.

Andrea Arcangeli

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