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SubjectRe: Cyrix 6x86MX and Centaur C6 CPUs in 2.1.102
On Mon, 18 May 1998, Phil's Kernel Account wrote:
> On Mon, 18 May 1998, [ISO-8859-1] André Derrick Balsa wrote:
>
> #I have a question. The 6x86MX allows one to lock L1 cache lines. Would
> #it be interesting to group some kernel variables and keep them in the L1
> #cache? Would that increase the kernel performance during context
> #switches?
>
> First off, YES. You *CAN* lock L1 cache lines. I personally don't suggest
> it, but you can do it. And you probably could, it probably would.
>
> #Please give me a hint of which data structures could be kept in the L1
> #cache, and their size.
>
> Uh, Alan? Linus? Hints?

A good candidate would be the first lines of the
task_struct and tss structs of the top 4 CPU using
processes.
Or maybe some very-often-used kernel structure.

Rik.
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