From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 09:19:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 09:19:25 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:29337 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 09:19:25 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 06:18:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20021014.061814.06551321.davem@redhat.com> To: mingo@elte.hu Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [patch, feature] nonlinear mappings, prefaulting support, 2.5.42-F8 From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: References: <20021014.054500.89132620.davem@redhat.com> X-FalunGong: Information control. X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Ingo Molnar Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:30:42 +0200 (CEST) Where to draw the line between a loop of INVLPG and a CR3 flush on x86 is up in the air - i'd say it's at roughly 8 pages currently I'd say it's highly x86 revision dependant and that it can be easily calibrated at boot time :-)