See the msr-patch-v4 I posted. http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/
I even wrote some words on it: Documentation/page-colouring.txt
Note: I don't claim to be an expert on this. This is based on what
I've learned in the process of tracking down another problem.
> 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"?
See the doc. If you think I didn't get the point across, let me know
and I'll try again.
> And what does it mean that a page is coloured or not?
Ditto.
> What is the point of page colouring? Do you want to avoid TLB misses
> or is only a L1/L2 cache issue? (or both?)
I've mainly been considering the latter, but I suspect Larry McVoy
also meant the former: I'll be posting another followup soon to check
on that.
Regards,
Richard....
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