[parisc-linux] itlb miss handler optimizations!

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 10:06:12AM -0600, Grant Grundler wrote:
> Note that itlb misses is a function of accesses to lots of "random"
> pages in memory and having enough memory so the odds of hitting
> the same page often is low. ie run thousands of jobs and the
> scheduler thrash the itlb.
> 
> at least that's how I understand it.

since we're still using 4k page size, and we have typically 160 TLB entries,
that only covers 640k of our 1.5MB cache ... 

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