Re: Memory Management - BSD vs Linux

Darin Johnson (darin@connectnet.com)
Tue, 12 Aug 1997 19:45:58 -0700 (PDT)


> "Hash table" just happens to be the IBM implementation for the TLB.

IBM isn't the only place to use a different term for the
"page translation cache".

> Making it external to
> the CPU doesn't make it a page table, it only makes it slower (but in all
> fairness it also makes it bigger, which is obviously why they do it).

It makes it slower than an on-chip TLB, but it's still likely to be
faster than a TLB miss (I assume they have an on-chip TLB as well).