| Date | Tue, 5 Jun 2001 10:29:28 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: Missing cache flush. |
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On 4 Jun 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> - even when it works, it is necessarily very very very slow. Not to be > used lightly. As you can imagine, the work-around is even slower.
i've measured it once, IIRC it was around 10-15 millisecs on normal pentiums, so while it's indeed the slowest x86 instruction on the planet, it's still perhaps acceptable for hot-swapping ECC RAM.
Ingo
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