Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call

Chris Wedgwood
2003-02-25T22:27:29Z

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 02:08:11PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:

> Without doing something about the page coloring problem (and he
> might be) the numbers will be fairly meaningless.

page coloring problem?

i was under the impression on anything 8-way-associative or better the
page coloring improvements were negligible for real-world benchmarks
(ie. kernel compiles)

... or is this more an artifact that even though the improvements for
real-world are negligible, micro-benchmarks are susceptible to these
variations this making things like the std. dev. larger than it would
otherwise be?

--cw