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"Even the TLBs in the recent Intel Skylake processor architecture, cover only 9% of a 256 GB memory." Isn't that sort of a lot since the TLB is per context a
by crave_ 9y ago
"Even the TLBs in the recent Intel Skylake processor architecture, cover only 9% of a 256 GB memory."
Isn't that sort of a lot since the TLB is per context anyways?
- monocasa 9y agoThe TLB is shared for the whole system. They added ASIDs so you can keep multiple contexts around without flushing the TLB. It's still not a great comparison though since TLBs are essentially cache. You only need to keep your working set in them.