Re: TLB dimensioning

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 02:28:30PM +0100, Dominic Sweetman wrote:

> 1. Your application has a non-trivial user space of any size;
> 
> 2. The performance of userland code is significant;

The kernel's performance also relies on TLB performance.

The wired register is making it easy to test performance of kernel and
application with a reduced size TLB; maybe I should make that a kernel
feature.

  Ralf