From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 26 06:42:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA24936 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 06:42:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA24918 for ; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 06:42:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.9.1/frmug-2.3/nospam) with UUCP id PAA03625 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 15:41:52 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: by keltia.freenix.fr (VMailer, from userid 101) id 1401AA6EB; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 14:11:37 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19980726141137.A11215@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 14:11:37 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New LINT options: what is VM coloring? Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199807260010.RAA27997@implode.root.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <199807260010.RAA27997@implode.root.com>; from David Greenman on Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 05:10:54PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#4462 AMD-K6 MMX @ 225 MHz Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to David Greenman: > be a big win for direct-mapped caches (e.g. most Pentium L2 caches), but > loses effectiveness with set-associative caches (e.g. Pentium Pro, which > has a set size of 4). The K6 has a 2-way set associative cache so I guess it is not interesting to use page coloring but does anyone know what kind of L2 cache an ASUS T2P4 use ? It is a P5-class motherboard so it is possible that the cache is direct-mapped, no ? -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #61: Sun Jul 12 14:38:23 CEST 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message