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114 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Alan Cox
ada2a050be Export the function vm_page_splay(). 2002-11-04 19:21:39 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
026aa839a4 - Add a new flag to vm_page_alloc, VM_ALLOC_NOOBJ. This tells
vm_page_alloc not to insert this page into an object.  The pindex is
   still used for colorization.
 - Rework vm_page_select_* to accept a color instead of an object and
   pindex to work with VM_PAGE_NOOBJ.
 - Document other VM_ALLOC_ flags.

Reviewed by:	peter, jake
2002-11-01 00:59:03 +00:00
Alan Cox
f3b676f0ad o Reinline vm_page_undirty(), reducing the kernel size. (This reverts
a part of vm_page.h revision 1.87 and vm_page.c revision 1.167.)
2002-10-20 19:57:55 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
b86ec922be Replace the vm_page hash table with a per-vmobject splay tree. There should
be no major change in performance from this change at this time but this
will allow other work to progress:  Giant lock removal around VM system
in favor of per-object mutexes, ranged fsyncs, more optimal COMMIT rpc's for
NFS, partial filesystem syncs by the syncer, more optimal object flushing,
etc.  Note that the buffer cache is already using a similar splay tree
mechanism.

Note that a good chunk of the old hash table code is still in the tree.
Alan or I will remove it prior to the release if the new code does not
introduce unsolvable bugs, else we can revert more easily.

Submitted by:	alc	(this is Alan's code)
Approved by:	re
2002-10-18 17:24:30 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
99571dc345 - Split UMA_ZFLAG_OFFPAGE into UMA_ZFLAG_OFFPAGE and UMA_ZFLAG_HASH.
- Remove all instances of the mallochash.
 - Stash the slab pointer in the vm page's object pointer when allocating from
   the kmem_obj.
 - Use the overloaded object pointer to find slabs for malloced memory.
2002-09-18 08:26:30 +00:00
Alan Cox
fff6062ab6 o Retire vm_page_zero_fill() and vm_page_zero_fill_area(). Ever since
pmap_zero_page() and pmap_zero_page_area() were modified to accept
   a struct vm_page * instead of a physical address, vm_page_zero_fill()
   and vm_page_zero_fill_area() have served no purpose.
2002-08-25 00:22:31 +00:00
Alan Cox
38f612e053 o Remove the setting and clearing of the PG_MAPPED flag from the alpha and
ia64 pmap.
 o Remove the PG_MAPPED flag's declaration.
2002-08-10 18:01:39 +00:00
Alan Cox
e5f8bd9418 o Introduce vm_page_sleep_if_busy() as an eventual replacement for
vm_page_sleep_busy().  vm_page_sleep_if_busy() uses the page
   queues lock.
2002-07-29 19:41:22 +00:00
Alan Cox
2c071f61f0 o Modify vm_page_grab() to accept VM_ALLOC_WIRED. 2002-07-28 23:46:19 +00:00
Alan Cox
6fd77192b2 o Remove dead and/or unused code. 2002-07-20 05:06:20 +00:00
Alan Cox
827b2fa091 o Introduce an argument, VM_ALLOC_WIRED, that requests vm_page_alloc()
to return a wired page.
 o Use VM_ALLOC_WIRED within Alpha's pmap_growkernel().  Also, because
   Alpha's pmap_growkernel() calls vm_page_alloc() from within a critical
   section, specify VM_ALLOC_INTERRUPT instead of VM_ALLOC_SYSTEM.  (Only
   VM_ALLOC_INTERRUPT is implemented entirely with a spin mutex.)
 o Assert that the page queues mutex is held in vm_page_wire()
   on Alpha, just like the other platforms.
2002-07-18 04:08:10 +00:00
Alan Cox
1f54526952 o Complete the locking of page queue accesses by vm_page_unwire().
o Assert that the page queues lock is held in vm_page_unwire().
 o Make vm_page_lock_queues() and vm_page_unlock_queues() visible
   to kernel loadable modules.
2002-07-13 20:55:21 +00:00
Alan Cox
70c1763634 o Resurrect vm_page_lock_queues(), vm_page_unlock_queues(), and the free
queue lock (revision 1.33 of vm/vm_page.c removed them).
 o Make the free queue lock a spin lock because it's sometimes acquired
   inside of a critical section.
2002-07-04 22:07:37 +00:00
Kenneth D. Merry
98cb733c67 At long last, commit the zero copy sockets code.
MAKEDEV:	Add MAKEDEV glue for the ti(4) device nodes.

ti.4:		Update the ti(4) man page to include information on the
		TI_JUMBO_HDRSPLIT and TI_PRIVATE_JUMBOS kernel options,
		and also include information about the new character
		device interface and the associated ioctls.

man9/Makefile:	Add jumbo.9 and zero_copy.9 man pages and associated
		links.

jumbo.9:	New man page describing the jumbo buffer allocator
		interface and operation.

zero_copy.9:	New man page describing the general characteristics of
		the zero copy send and receive code, and what an
		application author should do to take advantage of the
		zero copy functionality.

NOTES:		Add entries for ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS, TI_PRIVATE_JUMBOS,
		TI_JUMBO_HDRSPLIT, MSIZE, and MCLSHIFT.

conf/files:	Add uipc_jumbo.c and uipc_cow.c.

conf/options:	Add the 5 options mentioned above.

kern_subr.c:	Receive side zero copy implementation.  This takes
		"disposable" pages attached to an mbuf, gives them to
		a user process, and then recycles the user's page.
		This is only active when ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS is turned on
		and the kern.ipc.zero_copy.receive sysctl variable is
		set to 1.

uipc_cow.c:	Send side zero copy functions.  Takes a page written
		by the user and maps it copy on write and assigns it
		kernel virtual address space.  Removes copy on write
		mapping once the buffer has been freed by the network
		stack.

uipc_jumbo.c:	Jumbo disposable page allocator code.  This allocates
		(optionally) disposable pages for network drivers that
		want to give the user the option of doing zero copy
		receive.

uipc_socket.c:	Add kern.ipc.zero_copy.{send,receive} sysctls that are
		enabled if ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS is turned on.

		Add zero copy send support to sosend() -- pages get
		mapped into the kernel instead of getting copied if
		they meet size and alignment restrictions.

uipc_syscalls.c:Un-staticize some of the sf* functions so that they
		can be used elsewhere.  (uipc_cow.c)

if_media.c:	In the SIOCGIFMEDIA ioctl in ifmedia_ioctl(), avoid
		calling malloc() with M_WAITOK.  Return an error if
		the M_NOWAIT malloc fails.

		The ti(4) driver and the wi(4) driver, at least, call
		this with a mutex held.  This causes witness warnings
		for 'ifconfig -a' with a wi(4) or ti(4) board in the
		system.  (I've only verified for ti(4)).

ip_output.c:	Fragment large datagrams so that each segment contains
		a multiple of PAGE_SIZE amount of data plus headers.
		This allows the receiver to potentially do page
		flipping on receives.

if_ti.c:	Add zero copy receive support to the ti(4) driver.  If
		TI_PRIVATE_JUMBOS is not defined, it now uses the
		jumbo(9) buffer allocator for jumbo receive buffers.

		Add a new character device interface for the ti(4)
		driver for the new debugging interface.  This allows
		(a patched version of) gdb to talk to the Tigon board
		and debug the firmware.  There are also a few additional
		debugging ioctls available through this interface.

		Add header splitting support to the ti(4) driver.

		Tweak some of the default interrupt coalescing
		parameters to more useful defaults.

		Add hooks for supporting transmit flow control, but
		leave it turned off with a comment describing why it
		is turned off.

if_tireg.h:	Change the firmware rev to 12.4.11, since we're really
		at 12.4.11 plus fixes from 12.4.13.

		Add defines needed for debugging.

		Remove the ti_stats structure, it is now defined in
		sys/tiio.h.

ti_fw.h:	12.4.11 firmware.

ti_fw2.h:	12.4.11 firmware, plus selected fixes from 12.4.13,
		and my header splitting patches.  Revision 12.4.13
		doesn't handle 10/100 negotiation properly.  (This
		firmware is the same as what was in the tree previously,
		with the addition of header splitting support.)

sys/jumbo.h:	Jumbo buffer allocator interface.

sys/mbuf.h:	Add a new external mbuf type, EXT_DISPOSABLE, to
		indicate that the payload buffer can be thrown away /
		flipped to a userland process.

socketvar.h:	Add prototype for socow_setup.

tiio.h:		ioctl interface to the character portion of the ti(4)
		driver, plus associated structure/type definitions.

uio.h:		Change prototype for uiomoveco() so that we'll know
		whether the source page is disposable.

ufs_readwrite.c:Update for new prototype of uiomoveco().

vm_fault.c:	In vm_fault(), check to see whether we need to do a page
		based copy on write fault.

vm_object.c:	Add a new function, vm_object_allocate_wait().  This
		does the same thing that vm_object allocate does, except
		that it gives the caller the opportunity to specify whether
		it should wait on the uma_zalloc() of the object structre.

		This allows vm objects to be allocated while holding a
		mutex.  (Without generating WITNESS warnings.)

		vm_object_allocate() is implemented as a call to
		vm_object_allocate_wait() with the malloc flag set to
		M_WAITOK.

vm_object.h:	Add prototype for vm_object_allocate_wait().

vm_page.c:	Add page-based copy on write setup, clear and fault
		routines.

vm_page.h:	Add page based COW function prototypes and variable in
		the vm_page structure.

Many thanks to Drew Gallatin, who wrote the zero copy send and receive
code, and to all the other folks who have tested and reviewed this code
over the years.
2002-06-26 03:37:47 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
e78f35b33f Turn VM_ALLOC_ZERO into a flag.
Submitted by:	tegge
Reviewed by:	dillon
2002-06-25 22:01:12 +00:00
Alan Cox
8f2ba19c90 o Remove unused #defines. 2002-05-27 22:10:28 +00:00
Peter Wemm
44e74ba6c3 We do not necessarily need to map/unmap pages to zero parts of them.
On systems where physical memory is also direct mapped (alpha, sparc,
ia64 etc) this is slightly harmful.
2002-04-28 00:15:48 +00:00
Eivind Eklund
a128794977 - Remove a number of extra newlines that do not belong here according to
style(9)
- Minor space adjustment in cases where we have "( ", " )", if(), return(),
  while(), for(), etc.
- Add /* SYMBOL */ after a few #endifs.

Reviewed by:	alc
2002-03-10 21:52:48 +00:00
Alan Cox
2be21c5e68 o Create vm_pageq_enqueue() to encapsulate code that is duplicated time
and again in vm_page.c and vm_pageq.c.
 o Delete unusused prototypes.  (Mainly a result of the earlier renaming
   of various functions from vm_page_*() to vm_pageq_*().)
2002-03-04 18:55:26 +00:00
Alan Cox
5714577006 Remove some long dead code. 2002-03-02 22:21:42 +00:00
Tor Egge
d2760948fe Add a page queue, PQ_HOLD, that temporarily owns pages with nonzero hold
count that would otherwise be on one of the free queues.  This eliminates a
panic when broken programs unmap memory that still has pending IO from raw
devices.

Reviewed by:	dillon, alc
2002-02-19 23:19:30 +00:00
Peter Wemm
3516c025ff Implement idle zeroing of pages. I've been tinkering with this
on and off since John Dyson left his work-in-progress.

It is off by default for now.  sysctl vm.zeroidle_enable=1 to turn it on.

There are some hacks here to deal with the present lack of preemption - we
yield after doing a small number of pages since we wont preempt otherwise.

This is basically Matt's algorithm [with hysteresis] with an idle process
to call it in a similar way it used to be called from the idle loop.

I cleaned up the includes a fair bit here too.
2001-08-25 05:00:44 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
3a9b5daf48 Oops. Last commit to vm_object.c should have got these files too.
Remove the use of atomic ops to manipulate vm_object and vm_page flags.
Giant is required here, so they are superfluous.

Discussed with:	dillon
2001-07-31 04:09:52 +00:00
Assar Westerlund
d3e5863fa9 make vm_page_select_cache static
Requested by:	bde
2001-07-23 12:34:31 +00:00
Assar Westerlund
0379d76358 (vm_page_select_cache): add prototype 2001-07-21 17:08:15 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
6d03d577a5 Reorg vm_page.c into vm_page.c, vm_pageq.c, and vm_contig.c (for contigmalloc).
Also removed some spl's and added some VM mutexes, but they are not actually
used yet, so this commit does not really make any operational changes
to the system.

vm_page.c relates to vm_page_t manipulation, including high level deactivation,
activation, etc...  vm_pageq.c relates to finding free pages and aquiring
exclusive access to a page queue (exclusivity part not yet implemented).
And the world still builds... :-)
2001-07-04 23:27:09 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
1b40f8c036 Change inlines back into mainline code in preparation for mutexing. Also,
most of these inlines had been bloated in -current far beyond their
original intent.  Normalize prototypes and function declarations to be ANSI
only (half already were).  And do some general cleanup.

(kernel size also reduced by 50-100K, but that isn't the prime intent)
2001-07-04 20:15:18 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
0cddd8f023 With Alfred's permission, remove vm_mtx in favor of a fine-grained approach
(this commit is just the first stage).  Also add various GIANT_ macros to
formalize the removal of Giant, making it easy to test in a more piecemeal
fashion. These macros will allow us to test fine-grained locks to a degree
before removing Giant, and also after, and to remove Giant in a piecemeal
fashion via sysctl's on those subsystems which the authors believe can
operate without Giant.
2001-07-04 16:20:28 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
ac8f990bde This patch implements O_DIRECT about 80% of the way. It takes a patchset
Tor created a while ago, removes the raw I/O piece (that has cache coherency
problems), and adds a buffer cache / VM freeing piece.

Essentially this patch causes O_DIRECT I/O to not be left in the cache, but
does not prevent it from going through the cache, hence the 80%.  For
the last 20% we need a method by which the I/O can be issued directly to
buffer supplied by the user process and bypass the buffer cache entirely,
but still maintain cache coherency.

I also have the code working under -stable but the changes made to sys/file.h
may not be MFCable, so an MFC is not on the table yet.

Submitted by:	tegge, dillon
2001-05-24 07:22:27 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
2395531439 Introduce a global lock for the vm subsystem (vm_mtx).
vm_mtx does not recurse and is required for most low level
vm operations.

faults can not be taken without holding Giant.

Memory subsystems can now call the base page allocators safely.

Almost all atomic ops were removed as they are covered under the
vm mutex.

Alpha and ia64 now need to catch up to i386's trap handlers.

FFS and NFS have been tested, other filesystems will need minor
changes (grabbing the vm lock when twiddling page properties).

Reviewed (partially) by: jake, jhb
2001-05-19 01:28:09 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
2b6b0df712 This implements a better launder limiting solution. There was a solution
in 4.2-REL which I ripped out in -stable and -current when implementing the
low-memory handling solution.  However, maxlaunder turns out to be the saving
grace in certain very heavily loaded systems (e.g. newsreader box).  The new
algorithm limits the number of pages laundered in the first pageout daemon
pass.  If that is not sufficient then suceessive will be run without any
limit.

Write I/O is now pipelined using two sysctls, vfs.lorunningspace and
vfs.hirunningspace.  This prevents excessive buffered writes in the
disk queues which cause long (multi-second) delays for reads.  It leads
to more stable (less jerky) and generally faster I/O streaming to disk
by allowing required read ops (e.g. for indirect blocks and such) to occur
without interrupting the write stream, amoung other things.

NOTE: eventually, filesystem write I/O pipelining needs to be done on a
per-device basis.  At the moment it is globalized.
2000-12-26 19:41:38 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
936524aa02 Implement a low-memory deadlock solution.
Removed most of the hacks that were trying to deal with low-memory
    situations prior to now.

    The new code is based on the concept that I/O must be able to function in
    a low memory situation.  All major modules related to I/O (except
    networking) have been adjusted to allow allocation out of the system
    reserve memory pool.  These modules now detect a low memory situation but
    rather then block they instead continue to operate, then return resources
    to the memory pool instead of cache them or leave them wired.

    Code has been added to stall in a low-memory situation prior to a vnode
    being locked.

    Thus situations where a process blocks in a low-memory condition while
    holding a locked vnode have been reduced to near nothing.  Not only will
    I/O continue to operate, but many prior deadlock conditions simply no
    longer exist.

Implement a number of VFS/BIO fixes

	(found by Ian): in biodone(), bogus-page replacement code, the loop
        was not properly incrementing loop variables prior to a continue
        statement.  We do not believe this code can be hit anyway but we
        aren't taking any chances.  We'll turn the whole section into a
        panic (as it already is in brelse()) after the release is rolled.

	In biodone(), the foff calculation was incorrectly
        clamped to the iosize, causing the wrong foff to be calculated
        for pages in the case of an I/O error or biodone() called without
        initiating I/O.  The problem always caused a panic before.  Now it
        doesn't.  The problem is mainly an issue with NFS.

	Fixed casts for ~PAGE_MASK.  This code worked properly before only
        because the calculations use signed arithmatic.  Better to properly
        extend PAGE_MASK first before inverting it for the 64 bit masking
        op.

	In brelse(), the bogus_page fixup code was improperly throwing
        away the original contents of 'm' when it did the j-loop to
        fix the bogus pages.  The result was that it would potentially
        invalidate parts of the *WRONG* page(!), leading to corruption.

	There may still be cases where a background bitmap write is
        being duplicated, causing potential corruption.  We have identified
        a potentially serious bug related to this but the fix is still TBD.
        So instead this patch contains a KASSERT to detect the problem
  	and panic the machine rather then continue to corrupt the filesystem.
	The problem does not occur very often..  it is very hard to
	reproduce, and it may or may not be the cause of the corruption
	people have reported.

Review by: (VFS/BIO: mckusick, Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>)
Testing by: (VM/Deadlock) Paul Saab <ps@yahoo-inc.com>
2000-11-18 23:06:26 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
ee2fd03885 Make the arguments match the functionality of the functions. 2000-08-26 04:51:39 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
4c8545c13d #elsif -> #elif
Noticed by: green
2000-07-11 09:41:29 +00:00
John Baldwin
9a20f99adf Replace the PQ_*CACHE options with a single PQ_CACHESIZE option that you
set equal to the number of kilobytes in your cache.  The old options are
still supported for backwards compatibility.

Submitted by:	Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net>
2000-07-04 08:55:18 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
8b03c8ed5e This is a cleanup patch to Peter's new OBJT_PHYS VM object type
and sysv shared memory support for it.  It implements a new
    PG_UNMANAGED flag that has slightly different characteristics
    from PG_FICTICIOUS.

    A new sysctl, kern.ipc.shm_use_phys has been added to enable the
    use of physically-backed sysv shared memory rather then swap-backed.
    Physically backed shm segments are not tracked with PV entries,
    allowing programs which use a large shm segment as a rendezvous
    point to operate without eating an insane amount of KVM in the
    PV entry management.  Read: Oracle.

    Peter's OBJT_PHYS object will also allow us to eventually implement
    page-table sharing and/or 4MB physical page support for such segments.
    We're half way there.
2000-05-29 22:40:54 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
e39756439c Back out the previous change to the queue(3) interface.
It was not discussed and should probably not happen.

Requested by:		msmith and others
2000-05-26 02:09:24 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
740a1973a6 Change the way that the queue(3) structures are declared; don't assume that
the type argument to *_HEAD and *_ENTRY is a struct.

Suggested by:	phk
Reviewed by:	phk
Approved by:	mdodd
2000-05-23 20:41:01 +00:00
Peter Wemm
0385347c1a Implement an optimization of the VM<->pmap API. Pass vm_page_t's directly
to various pmap_*() functions instead of looking up the physical address
and passing that.  In many cases, the first thing the pmap code was doing
was going to a lot of trouble to get back the original vm_page_t, or
it's shadow pv_table entry.

Inspired by: John Dyson's 1998 patches.

Also:
Eliminate pv_table as a seperate thing and build it into a machine
dependent part of vm_page_t.  This eliminates having a seperate set of
structions that shadow each other in a 1:1 fashion that we often went to
a lot of trouble to translate from one to the other. (see above)
This happens to save 4 bytes of physical memory for each page in the
system.  (8 bytes on the Alpha).

Eliminate the use of the phys_avail[] array to determine if a page is
managed (ie: it has pv_entries etc).  Store this information in a flag.
Things like device_pager set it because they create vm_page_t's on the
fly that do not have pv_entries.  This makes it easier to "unmanage" a
page of physical memory (this will be taken advantage of in subsequent
commits).

Add a function to add a new page to the freelist.  This could be used
for reclaiming the previously wasted pages left over from preloaded
loader(8) files.

Reviewed by:	dillon
2000-05-21 12:50:18 +00:00
Peter Wemm
c447342094 Change #ifdef KERNEL to #ifdef _KERNEL in the public headers. "KERNEL"
is an application space macro and the applications are supposed to be free
to use it as they please (but cannot).  This is consistant with the other
BSD's who made this change quite some time ago.  More commits to come.
1999-12-29 05:07:58 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
4f79d873c1 Add MAP_NOSYNC feature to mmap(), and MADV_NOSYNC and MADV_AUTOSYNC to
madvise().

    This feature prevents the update daemon from gratuitously flushing
    dirty pages associated with a mapped file-backed region of memory.  The
    system pager will still page the memory as necessary and the VM system
    will still be fully coherent with the filesystem.  Modifications made
    by other means to the same area of memory, for example by write(), are
    unaffected.  The feature works on a page-granularity basis.

    MAP_NOSYNC allows one to use mmap() to share memory between processes
    without incuring any significant filesystem overhead, putting it in
    the same performance category as SysV Shared memory and anonymous memory.

Reviewed by: julian, alc, dg
1999-12-12 03:19:33 +00:00
Alan Cox
be72f78813 The core of this patch is to vm/vm_page.h. The effects are two-fold: (1) to
eliminate an extra (useless) level of indirection in half of the page
queue accesses and (2) to use a single name for each queue throughout,
instead of, e.g., "vm_page_queue_active" in some places and
"vm_page_queues[PQ_ACTIVE]" in others.

Reviewed by:	dillon
1999-10-30 07:37:14 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
90ecac61c0 Reviewed by: Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>, David Greenman <dg@root.com>
Replace various VM related page count calculations strewn over the
    VM code with inlines to aid in readability and to reduce fragility
    in the code where modules depend on the same test being performed
    to properly sleep and wakeup.

    Split out a portion of the page deactivation code into an inline
    in vm_page.c to support vm_page_dontneed().

    add vm_page_dontneed(), which handles the madvise MADV_DONTNEED
    feature in a related commit coming up for vm_map.c/vm_object.c.  This
    code prevents degenerate cases where an essentially active page may
    be rotated through a subset of the paging lists, resulting in premature
    disposal.
1999-09-17 04:56:40 +00:00
Peter Wemm
c3aac50f28 $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 01:08:13 +00:00
Brian Feldman
38c808edb7 Unbreak the nfs KLD_MODULE. It needs a bit more of vm_page.h than was
exported (notably vm_page_undirty()). Also, let vm_page_dirty() work
in a KLD.
1999-08-17 22:48:10 +00:00
Alan Cox
2c28a10540 Add the (inline) function vm_page_undirty for clearing the dirty bitmask
of a vm_page.

Use it.

Submitted by:	dillon
1999-08-17 04:02:34 +00:00
Alan Cox
175d1f69bf contigmalloc1 (currently) depends on PQ_FREE and PQ_CACHE not being 0
to tell a valid "struct vm_page" from an invalid one in the vm_page_array.
This isn't a very robust method.
1999-08-15 05:36:43 +00:00
Matt Jacob
3739d7da89 Add back in old definitions if we're compiling for alpha. 1999-08-15 01:16:53 +00:00
Alan Cox
514bfcc440 Don't create a "struct vpgqueues" for PQ_NONE. 1999-08-14 06:25:54 +00:00
Alan Cox
1aefb1d957 Make the default page coloring parameters match a (non-Xeon) Pentium II/III.
This setting is also acceptable for Celerons and Pentium Pros
with less than 1MB L2 caches.

Note: PQ_L2_SIZE is a misnomer.  The correct number of colors is
a function of the cache's degree of associativity as well as its size.

Submitted by:	bde and alc
1999-08-12 21:16:53 +00:00