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Date:      Sat, 8 Apr 1995 11:10:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Disk performance
Message-ID:  <199504081810.LAA22532@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950408214953.787U-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw> from "Brian Tao" at Apr 8, 95 09:51:56 pm

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>     Why would taking out the L2 cache slow down data transfer to and
> from the primary cache?

because checking the L2 takes time, and they don't start the mem-cycle
until they know they missed.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent'
=> 'no rude people are relevant'



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