Re: VM coloring description in NOTES

2000-06-26 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Arun Sharma writes: > > For Intel processors, CPUID instruction spits out both L1 and L2 cache > sizes. Perhaps, these things should be made a runtime option than a > compile time option ? That sounds like a good idea. Also, I imagine that it would be possible to write a function to emperi

Re: VM coloring description in NOTES

2000-06-26 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
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). = | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade| | Unix Systems Administrator

Re: VM coloring description in NOTES

2000-06-26 Thread Arun Sharma
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 mod

Re: VM coloring description in NOTES

2000-06-26 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
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 = | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT up

Re: VM coloring description in NOTES

2000-06-26 Thread Arun Sharma
[This message has also been posted.] On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 10:42:35 +0100, Koster, K.J. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > currently -> candidate > > > > PQ_HUGECACHE PQ_CACHE1024 > > > > PQ_LARGECACHE PQ_CACHE512 > > > > PQ_MEDIUMCACHEPQ_CACHE256 > > > > PQ_NO

RE: VM coloring description in NOTES

2000-06-26 Thread Koster, K.J.
> > > > currently -> candidate > > > PQ_HUGECACHE PQ_CACHE1024 > > > PQ_LARGECACHE PQ_CACHE512 > > > PQ_MEDIUMCACHEPQ_CACHE256 > > > PQ_NORMALCACHEPQ_CACHE64 > Hmm. At boot time, the BIOS displayes this square box with a lot of grub in it that FreeBSD th

RE: VM coloring description in NOTES

2000-06-25 Thread Kelly Yancey
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > > currently -> candidate > > PQ_HUGECACHE PQ_CACHE1024 > > PQ_LARGECACHE PQ_CACHE512 > > PQ_MEDIUMCACHEPQ_CACHE256 > > PQ_NORMALCACHEPQ_CACHE64 > > > > and newly PQ_CACHE128 should be defined as

Re: RE: VM coloring description in NOTES

2000-06-25 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> PQ_HUGECACHE PQ_CACHE1024 :> PQ_LARGECACHE PQ_CACHE512 :> PQ_MEDIUMCACHEPQ_CACHE256 :> PQ_NORMALCACHEPQ_CACHE64 :> :> and newly PQ_CACHE128 should be defined as default. :> :> Any ideas? : :Sounds ok to me. Do you have any patches for this? I

RE: VM coloring description in NOTES

2000-06-25 Thread Motomichi Matsuzaki
At Sun, 25 Jun 2000 12:07:38 -0700 (PDT), John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds ok to me. Do you have any patches for this? If not, > I'll make some and see if they pass muster. I have no patches. I would put it in your hands. Thank you. -- Motomichi Matsuzaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: VM coloring description in NOTES

2000-06-25 Thread John Baldwin
On 25-Jun-00 Motomichi Matsuzaki wrote: > > Hi. > > ** this discussion is for i386 architectures ** > > I think there is some unclearness on the description > about VM subsystem coloring in NOTES (formerly called LINT). > > Currently, > ># Options for the VM subsystem >#optionsPQ_NO

VM coloring description in NOTES

2000-06-25 Thread Motomichi Matsuzaki
Hi. ** this discussion is for i386 architectures ** I think there is some unclearness on the description about VM subsystem coloring in NOTES (formerly called LINT). Currently, # Options for the VM subsystem #optionsPQ_NOOPT# No coloring options PQ_LARGECACHE