Re: [PATCH] Mantaining turnstile aligned to 128 bytes in i386 CPUs

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Suleiman Souhlal wrote:

Bruce Evans wrote:
I haven't tried this, but have seen and partly worked sensitivity to
linear KVA maps not being physically (non)linear enough. Some CPUs
and/or memory systems are remarkably sensitive to bank interleave.
FreeBSD's page coloring doesn't know anything about banks, ...

About page coloring: Don't amd64 CPUs have virtually indexed, physically
tagged caches? If so, wouldn't it make sense to turn off page coloring,
since it's useless for virtually indexed caches (and probably hurts things
a bit)?

I think superpages will soon turn off coloring. Not sure if this is
right. How is copying and zeroing a whole superpage at a time avoided?

IIRC, my benchmarks (and LMbench) show some small positive benefits for
page coloring on amd64. I don't remember exactly what they are, just
that they are smaller than on AthlonXP.

Bruce
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