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From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	bjornw@axis.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Missing cache flush.
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 15:55:50 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010605155550.C22741@metastasis.f00f.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13942.991696607@redhat.com> <3B1C1872.8D8F1529@mandrakesoft.com> <15132.15829.322534.88410@pizda.ninka.net>
In-Reply-To: <15132.15829.322534.88410@pizda.ninka.net>; from davem@redhat.com on Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 07:03:01PM -0700

On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 07:03:01PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:

    The x86 doesn't have dumb caches, therefore it really doesn't
    need to flush anything.  Maybe a mb(), but that is it.

What if the memory is erased underneath the CPU being aware of this?
In such a way ig generates to bus traffic...



  --cw

  reply	other threads:[~2001-06-05  3:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-04 23:16 David Woodhouse
2001-06-04 23:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-04 23:29 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-05  2:03 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-05  3:55   ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2001-06-05  5:28     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-06-05  6:49       ` Alan Cox
2001-06-05  8:29       ` Ingo Molnar
2001-06-05 15:10         ` Ralf Baechle
2001-06-05  8:46     ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-05  9:05       ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-05 12:42         ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-05 12:52           ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-05 12:48         ` David S. Miller
2001-06-06  8:32           ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-06-06 19:48         ` Pavel Machek
2001-06-05  9:11       ` David S. Miller
2001-06-05  9:29       ` kira brown
2001-06-05 17:16         ` Alan Cox
2001-06-06 19:44           ` Earyly Cyrix CPUs was " Pavel Machek
2001-06-08 16:00             ` Alan Cox
2001-06-05  9:43       ` Johan Adolfsson
2001-06-05  8:50     ` David S. Miller
2001-06-05 17:01       ` Jamie Lokier
2001-06-05 23:24         ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-06-06  8:43           ` James Sutherland
2001-06-05  4:01   ` David S. Miller
2001-06-05  2:04 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-05  9:17 ` Bjorn Wesen
2001-06-05 12:57   ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-06-05 15:17     ` Ralf Baechle
2001-06-05 17:41     ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-05 14:22   ` Vipin Malik
2001-06-05 14:40     ` Chris Wedgwood

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