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Date:      Sun, 15 Sep 1996 12:26:48 +0900 (JST)
From:      Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
Cc:        Simon Marlow <simonm@dcs.gla.ac.uk>, jmb@freefall.freebsd.org, mrcpu@cdsnet.net, jhs@freebsd.org, sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VM/kernel problems?
Message-ID:  <Pine.SV4.3.93.960915122059.12726A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: <199609141728.KAA04566@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>

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On Sat, 14 Sep 1996, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

> I really doubt that this cache coloring is going to have much effect on
> machines without external cache, infact now that I think about it a little
> it should not matter what address patern is giving to external memory, it
> just won't effect performance.

It's not what address pattern it gives, but how it distributes the
hot addresses over the cache.  The overhead should be negligible.

Regards,


Mike Hancock



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