Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 12:48:09 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu> Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: page coloring Message-ID: <200011232048.eANKm9F01796@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 Nov 2000 14:35:30 CST." <20001123143530.E21300@cs.rice.edu>
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> > Isn't the page coloring algoritm in _vm_page_list_find totally bogus?
> >
>
> No, it's not. The comment is, however, misplaced. It describes
> the behavior of an inline function in vm_page.h, and not the function
> it precedes.
Hrm. My comment was based on John Dyson's own observations on its
behaviour, and other discussions which concluded that the code wasn't
flexible enough (hardcoded assumptions on cache organisation, size etc.)
If this isn't applicable, my apologies for confusing the matter.
--
... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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