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How to find optimum number of cpu cores for a workload
If you have a supervisor that allocates CPUs exclusively to one VM then you should use a different supervisor.
You have n real CPUs. The can do n times x amounts of work per second. Whether your VM ...
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What is the reason or advantage of having special purpose status flags for the result of comparisons?
You have two choices. Either you have separate compare instructions for ==, !=, <, <= etc. which all create 0 or 1, or you have one compare instruction creating flags and various branch ...
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Roles of 80386 MMU Paging Unit and similarity with modern CPU MMU
That's three questions, but I'll try my best. I looked at other techincal papers about the i386, and this is my best guess.
1. I'd like to know the roles of 'Adder', 'Page Cache', and 'Control and ...
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