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"Bela Lubkin" <blubkin@vmware.com> writes: > > /* > * Dirty a big buffer in a hard-to-predict (for the L2 cache) way. This > * is the operation that is timed, so we try to generate unpredictable > * cachemisses that still end up filling the L2 cache: > */ The comment is misleading anyways. AFAIK several of the modern CPUs (at least K8, later P4s, Core2, POWER4+, PPC970) have prefetch predictors advanced enough to follow several streams forward and backwards in parallel. I hit this while doing NUMA benchmarking for example. Most likely to be really unpredictable you need to use a true RND and somehow make sure still the full cache range is covered. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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