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From: Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>
To: Atsushi Nemoto <nemoto@toshiba-tops.co.jp>
Cc: turcotte@broadcom.com, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com, mturc@broadcom.com
Subject: Re: Linux Shared Memory Issue
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:46:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CC84EEC.8060100@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020425.142518.85417141.nemoto@toshiba-tops.co.jp

Atsushi Nemoto wrote:

>>>>>>On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 15:03:15 -0700, Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com> said:
>>>>>>
> jsun> Looks like the infamous cache aliasing problem.  Steve
> jsun> Longerbeam had a patch which may help.  Please try it and let me
> jsun> know the results.
> 
> jsun> +#define COLOUR_ALIGN(addr)    (((addr)+SHMLBA-1)&~(SHMLBA-1))
> 
> Recent sparc64's COLOUR_ALIGN macro have pgoff argument like this.
> We should do it same way for MIPS?
> 
> #define COLOUR_ALIGN(addr,pgoff)		\
> 	((((addr)+SHMLBA-1)&~(SHMLBA-1)) +	\
> 	 (((pgoff)<<PAGE_SHIFT) & (SHMLBA-1)))
> 


What is the purpose of adding the pgoff part?  To avoid mapping all shared 
regions into the beginning of cache?

Jun

  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-25 19:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-24 21:27 Linux Shared Memory Issue Maurice Turcotte
2002-04-24 22:03 ` Jun Sun
2002-04-25  5:25   ` Atsushi Nemoto
2002-04-25 18:46     ` Jun Sun [this message]
2002-04-26  3:11       ` Atsushi Nemoto
2002-04-27 21:45   ` XSHM/shared-pixmap fix Was: " Florian Lohoff
2002-05-06 11:04     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-04-25 15:36 ` Florian Lohoff
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-08-06  7:44 SysV IPC shared memory and virtual alising Atsushi Nemoto
2001-08-06  8:50 ` Dominic Sweetman
2001-08-14  8:24   ` Ralf Baechle
2001-08-14  8:49 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-08-16  3:04   ` Atsushi Nemoto
2002-05-07  6:48   ` XSHM/shared-pixmap fix Was: Linux Shared Memory Issue Atsushi Nemoto

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