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author | André Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu> | 2016-09-11 04:34:46 -0300 |
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committer | André Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu> | 2016-09-11 04:34:46 -0300 |
commit | 863981e96738983919de841ec669e157e6bdaeb0 (patch) | |
tree | d6d89a12e7eb8017837c057935a2271290907f76 /Documentation/x86/tlb.txt | |
parent | 8dec7c70575785729a6a9e6719a955e9c545bcab (diff) |
Linux-libre 4.7.1-gnupck-4.7.1-gnu
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diff --git a/Documentation/x86/tlb.txt b/Documentation/x86/tlb.txt index 39d172326..6a0607b99 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/tlb.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/tlb.txt @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ memory, it has two choices: from areas other than the one we are trying to flush will be destroyed and must be refilled later, at some cost. 2. Use the invlpg instruction to invalidate a single page at a - time. This could potentialy cost many more instructions, but + time. This could potentially cost many more instructions, but it is a much more precise operation, causing no collateral damage to other TLB entries. @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Which method to do depends on a few things: work. 3. The size of the TLB. The larger the TLB, the more collateral damage we do with a full flush. So, the larger the TLB, the - more attrative an individual flush looks. Data and + more attractive an individual flush looks. Data and instructions have separate TLBs, as do different page sizes. 4. The microarchitecture. The TLB has become a multi-level cache on modern CPUs, and the global flushes have become more |