From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:13:32 -0600 From: Grant Grundler To: Joel Soete Cc: Jim Hull , parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Re: [parisc-linux-cvs] linux carlos Message-ID: <20030829161332.GA22468@dsl2.external.hp.com> References: <3F4D78B0000005EE@ocpmta3.freegates.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <3F4D78B0000005EE@ocpmta3.freegates.net> Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 05:59:53PM +0200, Joel Soete wrote: > I just noticed the two following loops: > flush_data_cache_local: Note the names of the routines! ie should only be called when we know only the local CPU is touching data that needs to be flushed. This sounds like a risky strategy to me given prefetching can occur to page that's mapped cacheable. > Do you think that could be there where the pb occurs? I don't. There are likely other problems hidden there though. grant