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On 07/19/2013 04:38 AM, Raghavendra KT wrote:
> While measuring non - PLE performance, one of the bottleneck, I am seeing is
> flush tlbs.
> perf had helped in alaysing a bit there, but this patch would help
> in precise calculation. It will aslo help in tuning the PLE window
> experiments (larger PLE window
> would affect remote flush TLBs)

Interesting.  What workload is that?  I've been having problems finding
workloads that are too consumed with TLB flushes.