From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Tom Appermont <tea@sonycom.com>
Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: flush_cache_range
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:47:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010925164753.C3789@dea.linux-mips.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010925093258.A16068@sonycom.com>; from tea@sonycom.com on Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:32:58AM +0200
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:32:58AM +0200, Tom Appermont wrote:
> Can someone explain me why start and end parameters are ignored in
> r4k_flush_cache_range_d32i32() and cache range flushing operations
> for other platforms?
Afair the reason was that most invokations cover a range that is larger than
the entire cache anyway so our implementation in practice doesn't cause
any harm.
Ralf
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2001-09-25 7:32 flush_cache_range Tom Appermont
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