Mitch Bradley wrote: > John Richard Moser wrote: >> Bernardo Innocenti wrote: >> >>> Tom Sylla wrote: >>> >>> [...] >> The Geode GX has 64 TLB entries right? I don't know how many the >> Geode LX has, or if there's an L2 TLB. Obviously, though, this would >> be a major performance boon, what with there being (assuming 24MiB of >> vram) 5 probably often used mappings instead of 5120 in an often-used >> set with a probably uneven distribution. >> > > The magnitude of the performance benefit is not at all obvious. The > Geode's graphics accelerator uses physical addressing. >
But X doesn't. I was more thinking from the POV of X11 writing textures/icons into it, which when you switch applications may or may not wind up running all over the place and stamping out 20-30 TLB entries. I'm still not sure how it works. > >> >>> But I must confess I have limited understanding of the Geode >>> architecture, so I may be overlooking something. >>> >>> >> >> > > -- Bring back the Firefox plushy! http://digg.com/linux_unix/Is_the_Firefox_plush_gone_for_good https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322367 _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
