From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 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 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andi Kleen Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. -- 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/