Re: "Colo[u]rs"

From: Stevie O (stevie@qrpff.net)
Date: Mon Dec 10 2001 - 02:33:32 EST

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At 10:56 PM 12/9/2001 -0800, Tim Hockin wrote:
> > What exactly do y'all mean by these "colors"? Task colors, cache colors,
> > and probably a few other colors i've missed/forgotten about. What do these
> > colors represent? How are they used to group tasks/cache entries? Is what
> > they're actually for?
>
>Read up on page coloring.

Could you point me in the right direction, please? A google search turned
up a nice pile of sites like crayola.com, but nothing about memory
pages... except one thing on 'compiler-directed page coloring for
multiprocessors', which assumes certain knowledge that I don't have...

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