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From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [CFT:PATCH] Remove a seemingly unnecessary cache flush
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:53:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091214115318.GA12207@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19238.9843.212077.875686@pilspetsen.it.uu.se>

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:50:11PM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> Russell King - ARM Linux writes:
>  > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 10:12:10PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>  > > While looking into the possible msync() issue (which turned out to be a
>  > > non-issue - it's covered by clever code), I found that we're flushing
>  > > the same page multiple times.
>  > 
>  > I'm going to queue this patch up today since I believe it is correct,
>  > though it would be nice to have a few more people test it on pre-ARMv6
>  > hardware.
> 
> Tested here with gcc and glibc builds and testsuite runs on IXP420,
> IOP80219, and Kirkwood (Feroceon?), all ARMv5TE. No signs of problems.

Do the builds appear to be any faster?

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-14 11:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-07 22:12 [CFT:PATCH] Remove a seemingly unnecessary cache flush Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-12-10 10:40 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-12-14 11:50   ` Mikael Pettersson
2009-12-14 11:53     ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2009-12-14 12:15       ` Mikael Pettersson
2009-12-20 19:32         ` Mikael Pettersson
2009-12-10 16:04 ` Mike Rapoport
2009-12-18 16:09 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-03-09 15:46 ` Mikael Pettersson
2010-03-09 17:20   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-03-09 19:15     ` Mikael Pettersson
     [not found] <20091207203258.GH26821@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-08 13:26 ` Uwe Kleine-König

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