superpage plans

[Alan Cox]

Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez wrote:

>On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:16:25 +0100
>Ulrich Spoerlein <uspoerlein at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>what performance impact do you estimate for "older" processors? I know
>>very little about superpages, so I assume that, e.g., earlier Pentiums
>>don't support it? Where do you think the break off point lies?
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>Please correct me if I'm wrong, but if superpages means using 4 MB TLB pages,
>then it is quite old (~1993) and every pentium (i586 or newer) should support
>it.
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Yes, you are correct.

Regards,
Alan