Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Mar 2002 04:54:49 -0700 | From | yodaiken@fsmlabs ... | Subject | Re: 7.52 second kernel compile |
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On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 08:05:14AM +0000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > It would also be interesting to hear if you can just make the hash table > smaller (I forget the details of 64-bit ppc VM horrors, thank God!) or > just bypass it altogether (at least the 604e used to be able to just > disable the stupid hashing altogether and make the whole thing much > saner).
Reference: URL: http://www.usenix.org/ Optimizing the Idle Task and Other MMU Tricks Cort Dougan, Paul Mackerras, Victor Yodaiken www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/osdi99/full_papers/dougan/dougan.pdf
Cort's MS thesis was on this topic. IBM seems reluctant to give up on hardware page tables though.
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