From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 15:10:50 -0800 From: Larry McVoy Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20030125231050.GA21095@work.bitmover.com> References: <40475.210.212.228.78.1043384883.webmail@mail.nitc.ac.in> <3.0.6.32.20030124212935.007fcc10@boo.net> <20030125022648.GA13989@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Larry McVoy , Jason Papadopoulos , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > I am wondering if there is any point in biasing page addresses in between > processes so that processes are less likely to have a cache conflict. > i.e. process 1 address 0 %16K == 0, process 2 address 0 %16K == 4K All good page coloring implementation do exactly that. The starting index into the page buckets is based on process id. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/