[Gllug] Large Page Patch

[Huw Lynes]

On Tuesday 13 August 2002 22:40, Dave Jones wrote:
> Using large pages just buys you better usage of the CPUs TLB's, which
> depending on your workload may not be an improvement at all.
> Essentially, you want to be operating on 4MB chunks of data, with
> re-use of already-read data. If you're doing streaming I/O, you'll
> likely only use those pages once (read it, process it, throw it
> away).

That makes sense. Could the 64k have been in reference to something 
else? Perhapse in accesing block devices? 

Thanks,
Huw

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