Subject: Re: Accounting for differences in physical memory performance
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/23/2002 01:37:54
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> What it does is break up the memory into multiple free lists, sorted in
> order of descending priority.  The way this is used is that you would put
> your fastest memory on freelist 0, next fastest on freelist 1, and so on.
>
> The mvme68k port currently uses this facility for VME expansion memory.

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?


 - Hubert

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