x86 hardware typically only has a few page size options. You might want to look
at using cputrack/cpustat/performance
analyzer to see if your application is experiencing large numbers of TLB
misses. If this is the case, changing the page
size may reduce them.
Just want to add to this that yo
On 8/9/2010 8:19 PM, Kishore Kumar Pusukuri wrote:
I would like to see the impact of different page sizes on the performance of
multi-threaded applications. However, the pagesize -a command is producing only
3 possible page sizes including the default 4Kb on my AMD machine (shown
below). Are t
I would like to see the impact of different page sizes on the performance of
multi-threaded applications. However, the pagesize -a command is producing only
3 possible page sizes including the default 4Kb on my AMD machine (shown
below). Are these only page sizes I can use? (or) Is there anyway
