Re: Caches and DMA with PPro

Rogier Wolff (r.e.wolff@et.tudelft.nl)
Wed, 17 Apr 1996 14:27:37 +0200


Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Now, if the hardware sends out the interrupt _before_ having completely
> written the packet to memory, that might result in problems, but I assume
> that goes without saying ;-)

Which has been seen to occur in for example harddisks.

Roger.

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