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Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 06:59:04 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Subject: Re: speed difference between using hard-linked and modular drives?
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On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 02:12:15PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Modules have lots of little disadvantages that add up.  The speed penalty
> on various platforms is one, the load/unload race complexity is another.

At least for the speed penalty due to TLB thrashing: I would not really
blame modules in this case, it is just an application crying for large
pages support.

-Andi
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