Subject: Re: Accounting for differences in physical memory performance
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/23/2002 07:16:11
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On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 01:48:59AM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Wed, 22 May 2002, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> >  > Cool! There's a similar possibility of suboptimal RAM layout on the =
amiga
> >  > port, do you happen to know if that facility's used there too?
> >
> > Looks like on the Amiga, the facility is only used to keep the Zorro-II
> > accessible RAM from being allocated early.  (The i386 port does the same
> > thing for ISA-accessible memory.)
>=20
> I think that's enough (at least it is on my A2k... or would be, if I
> decided to upgrade it from 1.1 ;-)

I considered sorting the memory by Amiga memory list priority, but somebody
explained to me that NetBSD could not really make use of this information;
once a page is used, it is used. Is this not true?

	-is
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