Re: [RFC] global page support

2007-10-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Schwinge, le Sat 13 Oct 2007 22:48:44 +0200, a écrit : > On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 12:45:11AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > --- i386/i386at/model_dep.c 26 Nov 2006 20:01:47 - 1.9.2.10 > > > kernel_page_dir[lin2pdenum(0)] = > > kernel_page_dir[lin2pdenum(LINEAR_MIN

Re: [RFC] global page support

2007-10-13 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! While reading through the Intel manuals... 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/zer

Re: [RFC] global page support

2006-12-24 Thread Roland McGrath
I think some newer AMD chips may have a tagged TLB, so PGE is superfluous and doesn't improve anything for them. ___ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Re: [RFC] global page support

2006-12-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED], le Sun 24 Dec 2006 13:35:37 +0100, a écrit : > 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

Re: [RFC] global page support

2006-12-24 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, 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 . When was the extension in

Re: [RFC] global page support

2006-12-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Schwinge, le Sat 23 Dec 2006 19:36:02 +0100, a écrit : > 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 deb

Re: [RFC] global page support

2006-12-23 Thread Thomas Schwinge
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

Re: [RFC] global page support

2006-12-20 Thread Roland McGrath
looks about right to me ___ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

[RFC] global page support

2006-12-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, 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 . Samuel 2006-12-19 Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add support for global pages.