From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 3 1:10:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25CBF37B406 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 01:10:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f733lIC01436; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 20:47:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200108030347.f733lIC01436@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Chad David Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Page Coloring In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 02 Aug 2001 12:03:35 MDT." <20010802120335.A11520@colnta.acns.ab.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 20:47:18 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > If I added this to a man page would I be telling the truth :). > > Note, these are my notes and not the exact text that I would > add, and I have not bother with anything to do with object > coloring etc. I just want to make sure I've got this part > down. It looks about right, but page colouring is pointless unless and until we can determine the processor cache characteristics at runtime. Which we can't. Plus the code hardcodes all the relevant numbers. The code needs fixing as well as documenting. 8( -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message