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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] page coloring for 2.5.59 kernel, version 1
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:06:11 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1030128120205.32466B-100000@gatekeeper.tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p73k7gpz0vu.fsf@oldwotan.suse.de>

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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-01-28 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <3.0.6.32.20030127224726.00806c20@boo.net.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <884740000.1043737132@titus.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]   ` <20030128071313.GH780@holomorphy.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]     ` <1466000000.1043770007@titus.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2003-01-28 16:37       ` Andi Kleen
2003-01-28 16:49         ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-01-28 17:06         ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2003-01-28 17:22           ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-01-28 18:01 jasonp
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-28 17:49 jasonp
2003-01-28  3:47 Jason Papadopoulos
2003-01-28  3:57 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-01-28  4:11   ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-01-28  6:58 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-01-28  7:13   ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-01-28 16:06     ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-01-28 16:41       ` Falk Hueffner

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