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SubjectRe: Not MTRR !? was: ISSUE: very slow (factor 100) 4-way 16GByte server, with 2.4.2
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Robert Suetterlin wrote:

> As far as I can see almost all memory is set write-back. The memory at
> the far end belongs to some hardware, see /proc/iomem below.

> reg00: base=0xfb000000 (4016MB), size= 16MB: uncachable, count=1
> reg01: base=0xfc000000 (4032MB), size= 64MB: uncachable, count=1
> reg02: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=8192MB: write-back, count=1
> reg03: base=0x200000000 (8192MB), size=4096MB: write-back, count=1
> reg04: base=0x300000000 (12288MB), size=2048MB: write-back, count=1
> reg05: base=0x380000000 (14336MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1
> reg06: base=0x3c0000000 (15360MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1
> reg07: base=0x3e0000000 (15872MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
------ +
15.75 GB

It looks like the last 256MB isn't cached (well, it doesn't
have an MTRR at all) and Linux starts loading programs from
the top of memory ...

regards,

Rik
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