From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 11:59:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 11:59:45 -0400 Received: from u-87-21.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de ([62.180.21.87]:40943 "EHLO dea.waldorf-gmbh.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 11:59:32 -0400 Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 17:17:04 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: Chris Wedgwood Cc: Bjorn Wesen , David Woodhouse , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Missing cache flush. Message-ID: <20010605171704.B30818@bacchus.dhis.org> In-Reply-To: <13942.991696607@redhat.com> <20010606005703.A23758@metastasis.f00f.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010606005703.A23758@metastasis.f00f.org>; from cw@f00f.org on Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 12:57:03AM +1200 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 12:57:03AM +1200, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > I don't know about the CRIS (never heard of it, what is it?), but on > an Athlon when benchmarking stuff, I could still see L1 cache hits > from data that was 15 seconds old under certain work-loads (obviously > not gcc!). Does anyone know how old something may exisit in cache > before being written back to RAM? I know of no architecture that has a time limit that after which's expire caches get written back to memory. In other words cache lines may stay dirty for an indefinate time if things are just right. Ralf