Subject: Re: NetBSD on RiscPC Kinetic Card
To: None <port-arm32@netbsd.org>
From: Steve Woodford <swoodfor@bluews.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 06/26/2000 13:56:38
Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 12:31:59PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> 
> >       In addition to the very sage answers from people with respect
> >       to kernel/cache page usage, NetBSD also supports multiple free
> >       page lists, which is already used on mvme68k to prefer local
> >       memory over vmebus memory for more frequently accessed pages...
> >       The buffercache might be a good user of the slower memory? :)
> 
> I'm not convinced of this. Especially not in the near future, when UBC is
> will be integrated.

It actually works very well, at least on mvme68k, where VMEbus memory is
significantly slower than onboard memory as well as being forcibly
uncacheable on mvme147.

Cheers, Steve