From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Andrea Braschi <a.braschi90@gmail.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: cache coloring
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 10:56:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <528F3866.9000501@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP-9h15Zah-Zt+ZhiUndCoT44-KGc0vK_iwDYuhJXMg410LLig@mail.gmail.com>
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On 22/11/13 09:48, Andrea Braschi wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I'm Andrea and I'm a student from Politecnico di Milano, for a project
> at my university I need to implement cache coloring for the third
> level cache for xen-4.2.3 .I'm quite lost in this huge amount of code
> and documentation and I was wondering if here someone could help me
> answering some little questions:
>
> -where is the code implementing the buddy allocator for the third
> level caches?(i've found two buddies but none of them seems to me the
> right one...I'll be implementig this in order to support x86 64 bit
> architecture)
None - there is nothing special about the L3 cache as far as memory
management is concerned. The buddy allocators present are just for
allocation of RAM.
>
> -there's a documentation about it?
>
> I apologize if that's not the right list (if it's not please tell me
> where I can ask) and I hope I was clear in explaining my problem.
This is probably the best place to ask.
~Andrew
>
> Thanks in advance for your patience!
>
> Andrea
>
>
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-22 9:48 cache coloring Andrea Braschi
2013-11-22 10:56 ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2013-11-22 17:07 ` Dario Faggioli
2013-11-22 17:30 ` Andrea Braschi
2013-11-23 17:08 ` Dario Faggioli
[not found] ` <CAP-9h16hKJ5VcA+h9a2xnBxgZHkgoBDHh21n28u-SpsJ2sGaUA@mail.gmail.com>
2013-11-25 7:58 ` Dario Faggioli
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