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It's also misleading because it has 8 cores and each of them has 2048 l2 TLB entries. Altogether they can cover 64MiB of memory with small pages.


But 5800x3D has 96MB of L3. So even if all 8 cores are independently working on different memory addresses, you still can't cover all 96MB of L3 with the TLB.

EDIT: Well, unless you use 2MB hugepages of course.


That's another thing which is recent. Before Haswell, x86 cores had almost no huge TLB entries. IvyBridge only had 32 in 2MiB mode, compared to 64 + 512 in 4KiB mode.




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