[comp.arch] Help: Thrashing on TLB input?

cruff@ncar.ucar.edu (Craig Ruff) (09/21/88)

In article <16102@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> casey@cs.ucla.edu (Casey Leedom) writes:
>  The problem turned out to be that the Sun 3/2XX cache was 64Kb with 16
>byte lines indexed by a formula very dependent on the LSBs of the
>address.  ...
>
>  We finally got Sun 3/1XX performance by offsetting the source and
>destination arrays by 24 bytes. ...

This is discussed in a Sun Sales Tactical Engineering note titled:

	The Sun 3/200 and Sun 4/200 Cache

Ask your Sun rep to get you a copy.  It discusses the way the cache
works and performance issues like that above.
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