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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 00/24] C6X: New architecture
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On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 12:33 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 September 2011, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
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> > On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:29:41 EDT, Mark Salter said:
> >
> > > This architecture supports members of the Texas Instruments family
> > > of C6x single and multicore DSPs. The multicore DSPs do not support
> > > cache coherancy, so are not suitable for SMP.
> >
> > Is there a usage model for the multicore? I know somebody had some patches for
> > "HPC dedicated compute cores" that would just basically run a userspace process
> > and that's it - would those be applicable here?
>
> No, that's a different thing. Even with dedicated compute cores, you need
> cache coherency.

One thing that we plan to push later is an XIP model where cores can
share a
single kernel text image but run with their own copies of data. So you
end up
with something like a loosely coupled multiprocessor system with some
hardware
support for multicore communication and peripheral sharing.

--Mark




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