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From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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Subject: Re: 7.52 second kernel compile
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On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, David S. Miller wrote:

>    From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
>    Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:46:04 -0800 (PST)
>
>    Or maybe the program is just flawed, and the interesting 1/8 pattern comes
>    from something else altogether.
>
> I think the weird Athlon behavior has to do with the fact that
> you've made your little test program as much of a cache tester
> as a TLB tester :-)

Uhm, it's moving to different pages and it does it consecutively. I think
Linus was trying to prove the multiple tlb entries fill for single miss ...



- Davide


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