Re: [PATCH] page coloring for 2.5.59 kernel, version 1

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.

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bill davidsen [off-list ref]
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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