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From: philw@pla... philw@pla...
Subject: General questions...
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 19:30:02 -0400

>adopt the strategy of power/mmu.c and chm/mmu.c: they use a stunningly elegant
>distributed garbage collection algorithm (and very little code)
>to manage a collection of virtual contexts across the TLBs of a multiprocessor.

thank you.

However, there is an additional problem. The 20's have virtual caches
so you also have to deal with page coloring. I faced the problem for
the SGI challenge XL and that was really the start of Brazil.

phil.