Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:45:19 +0200 (CEST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: RT cache management |
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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...
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