From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 27 01:51:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA03324 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 01:51:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA03319 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 01:51:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA00188; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 09:51:47 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 09:51:47 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: "John S. Dyson" cc: Terry Lambert , roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New LINT options: what is VM coloring? In-Reply-To: <199807262349.SAA05217@dyson.iquest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, John S. Dyson wrote: > > Actually, the L1 cache is where it's most important (see paper references > > in my previous posting). Also, the Alpha can significantly benefit from > > this, per Digital UNIX: > > > Is the L1 cache on the Alpha is direct mapped??? On the X86, it isn't. When > actually running tests, it doesn't seem to make ANY differences on the X86, > due to the very small number of pages, and the mapping scheme. I'm not too sure what the layout of the alpha caches are. I expect they are different on different processor generations. I really must start reading the processor manuals for these things... -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message