Re: [Lse-tech] Re: 10.31 second kernel compile

yodaiken@fsmlabs.com
Sat, 16 Mar 2002 12:53:29 -0700


On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 11:16:16AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Show me a semi-sane architecture that _matters_ from a commercial angle.

I thought we were into this for the pure technical thrill-)

> > is there a 64 bit machine with hardware search of pagetables? Even ibm
> > only has a hardware search of hash tables - which we agree are simply
> > a means of making your hardware TLB larger and slower.
>
> ia64 does the same mistake, I think.

I finally let myself read part of the hammer spec - and it's got that 4 level -
except for2MB pages where it is 3 level.



> page tables. And I personally like how Hammer looks more than the ia64 VM
> horror.

No kidding. But I want TLB load instructions.

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