Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752479AbYJOLS0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:18:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751844AbYJOLSS (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:18:18 -0400 Received: from g1t0027.austin.hp.com ([15.216.28.34]:16322 "EHLO g1t0027.austin.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751265AbYJOLSS convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:18:18 -0400 From: "Wildman, Tom" To: Alan Jenkins CC: "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "alan@redhat.com" Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:17:33 +0000 Subject: RE: Superpages Project - sourceforge.net/projects/linuxsuperpages Thread-Topic: Superpages Project - sourceforge.net/projects/linuxsuperpages Thread-Index: AckuoDT4WjLdbsAGQGmZickFLngVLAAFwgSA Message-ID: References: <48F5A9FF.2020306@tuffmail.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <48F5A9FF.2020306@tuffmail.co.uk> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1809 Lines: 39 Alan, I agree that it is not easy to find so I will add a link to the wiki section on the front page (if possible). http://linuxsuperpages.wiki.sourceforge.net/ /Tom -----Original Message----- From: Alan Jenkins [mailto:alan.christopher.jenkins@googlemail.com] On Behalf Of Alan Jenkins Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 4:30 AM To: Wildman, Tom Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; alan@redhat.com Subject: Re: Superpages Project - sourceforge.net/projects/linuxsuperpages Wildman, Tom wrote: > A new project has been created at SourceForge with an implementation of the Rice University's Superpages FreeBSD prototype that has been ported to the 2.6 Linux kernel for IA64, x86-64, and x86-32. > > The project can be found at: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxsuperpages > Maybe I'm just struggling with the re-designed Sourceforge, but I can't find a link to the "Wiki section" mentioned in the summary. > The major benefit of supporting Superpages is increased memory reach of the processor's TLB, which reduces the number of TLB misses in applications that have large data sets. Some benchmarks have been improved 20% in execution time. > > Reference www.cs.rice.edu/~jnavarro/superpages/ for more information about the Rice University's Superpages project. > > The project is being made available to the Open Source community to share the implementation and knowledge. With the enhancements to the x86 architectures to support multiple and large page sizes there should be increased interest in this functionality. > > /Tom > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/