Unix kernel locality of reference

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From: Phil Ngai
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1987 18:36

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Have any studies been done on how the kernel's locality of reference
compares to that of a typical application such as the compiler or
nroff? I am interested in cache design issues. How big a cache?  How
associative? What kind of hit rates? How big a line size?  How much
time is spent in reload? What is the total running time? Writeback
policies? Most of these are general cache design issues but I am
especially interested in whether the kernel acts significantly
differently than the average program the user might write and what
parameters might be changed to allow for differences.

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Subject: Unix kernel locality of reference
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Date: Mon, 12-Jan-87 13:36:19 EST
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