Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 18:54:54 -0600 From: Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Page Coloring Message-ID: <20010805185454.A32968@ranger.acns.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: <20010805223308.D3254@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@freebsd.org on Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 10:33:08PM %2B0100 References: <20010802120335.A11520@colnta.acns.ab.ca> <200108051920.f75JKa581920@earth.backplane.com> <20010805223308.D3254@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 10:33:08PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 12:20:36PM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: > > It's a good description but it might be better to simplify it a bit. > > You don't need to go into that level of detail. There is a short > > page coloring explanation at the end of my VM article which might > > be more suitable to a man page: > > > > http://www.daemonnews.org/200001/freebsd_vm.html > > That got pulled in to the documentation project a while ago, and can be > found at > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vm-design/index.html > > This makes it pretty easy for us (you) to keep it up to date as you > change FreeBSD's VM system. . . Thanks, I will use some of this text if I can, and be sure to give Matt credit. If that was too much detail, is there a place for the detail? Next week I am going to attempt to determine the cache size via the cpuid instruction, and export some of the calculation parameters via sysctl (to help with some simulations that we are going to be doing). Given that nobody has done this yet, am I missing something that will bite me? The intel IA32 manuals seem to indicate that most of the (intel) cpu's in use today should support cpuid 2 lookup? Thanks. Chad To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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