405 TLB miss reduction
Wolfgang Grandegger
wolfgang.grandegger at bluewin.ch
Thu Dec 11 01:43:41 EST 2003
Hello,
we are suffering from TLB misses on a 405GP processor, eating up to
10% of the CPU power when running our (rather big) application. We
can regain a few percent by using the kernel option CONFIG_PIN_TLB
but we are thinking about further kernel modifications to reduce
TLB misses. What comes into my mind is:
- using a kernel PAGE_SIZE of 8KB (instead of 4KB).
- using large-page TLB entries.
Has anybody already investigated the effort or benefit of such
changes or knows about other (simple) measures (apart from
replacing the hardware)?
TIA.
Wolfgang.
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