Subject: Re: Q: uvmexp.ncolors
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Toru Nishimura <locore32@gaea.ocn.ne.jp>
List: port-mips
Date: 12/27/2003 11:55:22
>> Page coloring makes significant effect for some applications
>> which do heavy memory access (e.g. numerical applications).
>
> Right, the idea is to spread the pages out in the cache, most
> importantly to make adjacent pages in virtual memory not occupy the
> same cache lines.
Thank you, guys. Then, I'm seriously doubt of that file does not do the
right things about efficient use of cache.
Toru Nishimura/ALKYL Technology