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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Optimize out pte_chain take three
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 16:52:01 +0200
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On Thursday 11 July 2002 21:54, Andrew Morton wrote:
> The problem is the access pattern.  It shouldn't be random-uniform.
> But what should it be?  random-gaussian?

It should be kinda-fractal.  That is, random distributions of random
distributions.  In concrete terms, this could mean running one random
load for a while then randomly switching to a different random load.

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Daniel
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