Re: [patch, feature] nonlinear mappings, prefaulting support,

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Mon, 14 Oct 2002 06:18:14 -0700 (PDT)

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:30:42 +0200 (CEST)

Where to draw the line between a loop of INVLPG and a CR3 flush on
x86 is up in the air - i'd say it's at roughly 8 pages currently

I'd say it's highly x86 revision dependant and that it
can be easily calibrated at boot time :-)
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