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Memory management for virtualization

Memory management for virtualization

Posted Apr 8, 2010 2:42 UTC (Thu) by Thalience (subscriber, #4217)
Parent article: Memory management for virtualization

Indeed, CPU vendors seem decidedly uninterested in telling you how many TLB entries a particular CPU (and/or northbridge) sports.

Considering how important this can be for some workloads, this has always puzzled me. After all, they'll cheerfully tout the amount of L2 cache and if you care to look around, you can find details such as the number of ALUs, FPUs and vector units.


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