> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:46:04 -0800 (PST)
>
> Or maybe the program is just flawed, and the interesting 1/8 pattern comes
> from something else altogether.
>
> I think the weird Athlon behavior has to do with the fact that
> you've made your little test program as much of a cache tester
> as a TLB tester :-)
Uhm, it's moving to different pages and it does it consecutively. I think
Linus was trying to prove the multiple tlb entries fill for single miss ...
- Davide
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