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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