If somebody has some pointer where I can read C code or docs about page
colouring I am very interested.
On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Richard Gooch wrote:
> I assume you mean those programmes which are slowed down by page
> colouring have a silly access pattern which results in cache line
> aliasing? They only ran faster without page colouring because random
What does it mean "cache line aliasing"?
And what does it mean that a page is coloured or not?
What is the point of page colouring? Do you want to avoid TLB misses or is
only a L1/L2 cache issue? (or both?)
Reply me only if you have some time to waste of course ;).
Thanks.
Andrea Arcangeli
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