Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Jul 1999 14:20:59 -0400 (EDT) | From | Gregory Maxwell <> | Subject | Re: New kernel/resource.c |
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On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, The Doctor What wrote:
> It almost sounds like you want to have the memory blocked out into > different speeds. Sort of like Metric for routing networks. This makes > some sense, as I know some hardware has different speed memory (I think > the Amiga does), but I'm not sure you'd want to keep such a table of info, > or how to keep track of these speeds if memory has, for example, different > speeds dependent on which CPU you are looking from.
You do it in the allocators. Memory is already allocated on a per-cpu basis I believe (for cache affinity reasons), so you just extend that to understand your layout..
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