Re: x86, ARM, PARISC, PPC, MIPS and Sparc folks please run this

From: Roland Dreier
Date: Mon Sep 01 2003 - 12:23:03 EST


Matt> PPC440GX, non cache coherent, L1 icache is VTPI, L1 dcache
Matt> is PTPI

Jamie> The cache looks very coherent to me.

Matt (like me) is probably just used to thinking of the IBM PPC 440
chips as non-coherent because they are not cache coherent with respect
to external bus masters (eg they don't snoop the PCI bus). Of course,
this is a different type of coherency from what you are measuring.

- Roland
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