David S. Miller writes:
> Add page coloring to the page allocator and your variability will
> disappear.
I was wondering if that would be the response. What about using 4 MB
pages? Would that help?
It would, but I have no idea how feasible this is with the Intel page
tables. Ingo could probably more quickly cook up a test patch than
me.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com
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