Re: [PATCH 00/07][RFC] i386: NUMA emulation

[David Lang]

On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Martin J. Bligh wrote:

> --David Lang <david.lang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote (on Monday, October 03, 2005 08:03:44 -0700):
>
> > On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> >
> > > But that's not the same at all! ;-) PAE memory is the same speed as
> > > the other stuff. You just have a 3rd level of pagetables for everything.
> > > One could (correctly) argue it made *all* memory slower, but it does so
> > > in a uniform fashion.
> >
> > is it? I've seen during the memory self-test at boot that machines slow down noticably as they pass the 4G mark.
>
> Not noticed that, and I can't see why it should be the case in general,
> though I suppose some machines might be odd. Got any numbers?

just the fact that the system boot memory test takes 3-4 times as long 
with 8G or ram then with 4G of ram. I then boot a 64 bit kernel on the 
system and never use PAE mode again :-)

if you can point me at a utility that will test the speed of the memory in 
different chunks I'll do some testing on the Opteron systems I have 
available. unfortunantly I don't have any Xeon systems to test this on.

David Lang

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