Re: RT cache management

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl)
Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:45:19 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 22 Jun 1998 ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 1998 at 10:18:33AM +0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> > Linux has some cache controlling features, but they're not
> > application program tunable. All Linux machines are
> > automatically cache coherent, so programs don't really need
> > that kind of control anyway...
>
> Many MIPS boxes, in particular all currently Linux supported ones, all
> ARM and and many 68k boxes aren't cache coherent.

But because of kernel features, the automatically _look_
cache coherent to the applications, which is what I
wanted to say...

Rik.
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