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I'm confused. A 32 megabyte TLB is huge. TLB entries are tiny objects; and each one caches the mapping for an entire VM page. The larger the page size, the more "leverage" the TLB has.

Maybe the blogger means that the TLB controls a VM working set or footprint of 32 MB?



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