Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:06:11 -0500 (EST) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] page coloring for 2.5.59 kernel, version 1 |
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On 28 Jan 2003, Andi Kleen wrote:
> The main advantage of cache coloring normally is that benchmarks > should get stable results. Without it a benchmark result can vary based on > random memory allocation patterns. > > Just having stable benchmarks may be worth it.
I have noted in ctxbench that the SMP results have a vast performance range while the uni (and nosmp) don't. Not clear if this would improve that, but I sure would like to try.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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