> On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 07:01:28PM +0200, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>
> Whether this works depends on the cache line replacement policy.
> It will always work with LRU, for example, and probably
> everything else that exists. But it is not guaranteed, is it?
LFU, if used, wouldn't be flushed by this trick... Potentially, you could
have a slice of kernel interrupt handler sitting in a cache line, having
been accessed $BIG_NUMBER times... (Does anything actually use this
approach, though???)
James.
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