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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: Bad news: kind-of about page coloring
To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
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> 
> I'm a bit curious: how would you gage the associativity of a two
> processor system?
> 
I have an SMP capable MB now, and will soon be working with the
SMP guys a little bit.  Hopefully, I'll be able to check this
out.  I would guess that it won't help an SMP P6 much at all,
but it will still help the P5 (usually direct-mapped.)  We'll
certainly find out!!!

John