Re: Large stack usage in fs code (especially for PPC64)

From: Paul Mackerras
Date: Tue Nov 18 2008 - 06:45:06 EST


Nick Piggin writes:

> It's much harder to do this with powerpc I think because they would need
> to calculate 8 hashes and touch 8 cachelines to prefill 8 translations,
> wouldn't they?

Yeah, the hashed page table sucks. Film at 11, as they say. :)

Paul.
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