linux-kernel - Re: larger default page sizes...

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20080325.213602.193698359.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:36:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jsm@...hp.com
Cc:	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: larger default page sizes...

From: John Marvin <jsm@...hp.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:16:00 -0600

> 1) There was no easy way of determining what size the long format vhpt cache 
> should be automatically, and changing it dynamically would be too painful. 
> Different workloads performed better with different size vhpt caches.

This is exactly what sparc64 does btw, dynamic TLB miss hash table
sizing based upon task RSS
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/