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
next prev parent 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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