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[$] Approaches to reducing TLB pressure
Wednesday April 2, 2025. 03:45 PM , from LWN.net
The CPU's translation lookaside buffer (TLB) caches the results of
virtual-address translations, significantly speeding memory accesses. TLB misses are expensive, so a lot of thought goes into using the TLB as efficiently as possible. Reducing pressure on the TLB was the topic of Rik van Riel's memory-management-track session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit. Some approaches were considered, but the session was short on firm conclusions.
https://lwn.net/Articles/1016009/
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