From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Mohamed Bamakhrama <bamakhrama@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: cacheops.h & r4kcache.h
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 15:01:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070801140114.GA23858@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40378e40708010618r7a93e58br206e7c47e685a05e@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 03:18:00PM +0200, Mohamed Bamakhrama wrote:
> In those two header files, flush & invalidate operations were
> implemented. Nevertheless, the MIPS32 core supports cache locking as
> well. Is there any implementations for Fetch&Lock instructions within
> the kernel?
No. The primary use for cache locking seems to be the rather extreme
realtime requirements, a league where Linux isn't playing quite yet.
For a more general purpose OS locking has a good chance of doing more
harm than help.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-01 14:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-01 13:18 cacheops.h & r4kcache.h Mohamed Bamakhrama
2007-08-01 14:01 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2007-08-01 14:13 ` Mohamed Bamakhrama
2007-08-01 14:40 ` Ralf Baechle
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