Re: Variability in cache access times

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Thu, 28 Jan 1999 19:05:19 +1100

David S. Miller writes:
> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:51:49 +1100
> From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
>
> I'd welcome any insights into this problem or suggestions for
> further testing.
>
> Add page coloring to the page allocator and your variability will
> disappear.

I was wondering if that would be the response. What about using 4 MB
pages? Would that help?

Regards,

Richard....

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