Guerreiro da Luz wrote: > Am benchmarking dumb matrix multiplication in trying to perceive > performance drop in case when matrix cannot fit in L2 cache. However, > on my machine L2 cache is large - 2MB, so 512x512 matrix of double > numbers is needed to fill the cache, and in that case multiplication > is taking rather long time. So I'm wondering is there a way to > control (decrease) L2 cache size used by Linux? Apologies if question > inappropriate for the list.
You may want to turn off randomization, echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/vdso_enabled And see if that helps. Thanks! -- Al - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/