Cache coherency and snooping

From: Imran Badr (imran.badr@cavium.com)
Date: Tue Aug 13 2002 - 18:22:31 EST

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Hi,

How can I define a certain region of memory so that it is never cached? I
want to use non-cached region of memory to communicate to my PCI device to
avoid system overhead in cache snooping.

Thanks,
Imran.

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