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Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:06:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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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 <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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