Alright, well that makes sense.. I guess it speeds things up some too? (I
had it enabled for a while, but didn't notice a difference).
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On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Arun Sharma wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 12:50:41PM -0400, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote:
> > Just curious because I have no experience in this area... but what exactly
> > does cache coloring get us... I've never actually gotten a really straight
> > answer on this... Thanks
>
> Read Curt Schimmel's book UNIX systems for modern architectures for an
> answer.
>
> Basically, it ensures that if P1 and P2 are two pages that are allocated
> successively (temporal locality), then the first cache line in P1 and
> the first cache line in P2 do not compete with each other for the L2 cache.
>
> -Arun
>
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