Thanks Malc .. I'll check out the video ... and perhaps ping you off the list.
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:15 AM, malc <av1...@comtv.ru> wrote: > On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, C K Kashyap wrote: > > > Hi, > > This is not strictly qemu related but I think people who have a good idea > > about it must be on this list. > > I was wondering if I had an app that requires a fixed quantity of memory > - > > sufficiently less than the available physical memory. Would it benefit > from > > getting rid of the paging mechanism in the OS/hardware? > > As in, since the number of tasks are also fixed - we'd use only > segmentation > > to partition the VM area? Would eliminating the paging layer give good > > returns? > > > > Microsoft researchers working on Singularity claimed[1] that it does > provide significant speed improvements, and recent (few days ago) > discussion on comp.arch suggested as much (no need to go though TLB). > > [1] > http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Singularity-A-research-OS-written-in-C/ > (maybe the claim was made in some other video, in any case it should > be there on Channel 9) > > -- > mailto:av1...@comtv.ru > -- Regards, Kashyap
