From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 20 19:19:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA06086 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 19:19:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from palrel1.hp.com (palrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA06077 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 19:18:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from koshy@india.hp.com) Received: from postbox.india.hp.com (postbox.india.hp.com [15.10.45.1]) by palrel1.hp.com (8.8.6/8.8.5tis) with ESMTP id TAA25525 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 19:18:49 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199711210318.TAA25525@palrel1.hp.com> Received: from localhost by postbox.india.hp.com with ESMTP (1.39.111.2/16.2) id AA023221934; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 08:42:14 +0530 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: References for page coloring algorithms? Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 08:42:13 +0530 From: A Joseph Koshy Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Does any literature exist on the page coloring algorithm used in FreeBSD? If so, I'd appreciate it if someone could forward/post references. I didn't find any previous discussion on this topic in the archives. I came across the following ACM paper on page coloring for direct mapped caches, but the schemes described there are substantially different from the FreeBSD code: R. E. Kessler and Mark D. Hill, Page Placement Algorithms for Large Real-Indexed Caches, ACM TOCS, Vol. 10, No. 4, November 1992, pp. 338-359. Thanks, Koshy #include STD_DISCLAIMER