> From: [email protected]
> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:35:38 +0700
> Subject: Re: Reading TLB Entries
> To: [email protected]
> CC: [email protected]
>
> Hi
>
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:30, Prabhu nath <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Yes please. Nice to have your say on this.
>
> Please don't top post :)
>
> First, do you know what TLB is? It caches latest address translation,
> correct? Thus, by doing the function call, it is likely that new
> virtual address needs to be translated to physical address, right?
> And...where do you think it will end up? TLB again, right?
>
> And since TLB size is not that big...guess how it manages itself in
> that situation.... again ...simple...FIFO.... or anything like
> that...but you get the basic message.
>
> :)
>
I think its impossible to do it on x86 as Rik and Mulyadi suggested. But its
100% possible in MIPS since the priviledged code in MIPS doesn't need TLB
mappings :) (because of the way the code is laid out)
- Himanshu
