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Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 21:38:04 +0200
From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
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Subject: Re: X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space (fwd)
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David S. Miller wrote:
> It's particularly attractive on sparc64 because you
> can use a "global" TLB entry which is thus shared between all address
> spaces.

Fwiw, modern x86 has global TLB entries too.

-- Jamie
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