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[John Richard Moser]

Mitch Bradley wrote:
> John Richard Moser wrote:
>> Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
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>>> Tom Sylla wrote:
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>> 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.
>>>
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