From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 01:39:09 +0100
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 02:23:20PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> I think this is all "just so happens" personally, and all the that
> turning off the large pages really does is change the timings so that
> whatever bug is really present simply becomes a heisenbug.
My same wondering, however I wasn't sure how much the timing could
really change to make the kernel bugs trigger.
Not kernel bugs, things like AGP bugs under high load which would
go away if the machine spent more time taking kernel TLB misses.
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