Re: LTP testing (shmat01)

[Carsten Langgaard <carstenl@mips.com>]

I have no preferences of the value of SHMLBA, as long as the define in
/usr/include/sys/shm.c and include/asm-mips/shmparam.h are in sync.

/Carsten


Ralf Baechle wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 10:31:23AM -0700, Jun Sun wrote:
>
> > I think this is also an effective way to avoid cache aliasing.
>
> Correct.  At the same time the choice of this value also tends to cause
> bad use of L2 caches ...
>
> > As long as your cache size is less than 256K, you don't get cache aliasing
> > through shared memory.
>
> Actually the "alias set" has to be less than 256kB.  On existing MIPS
> implementations it's at most 16kB; a sillyness of the R4000 / R4400 VCE
> exceptions makes a value of 32kB mandatory for poerformance reasons.
>
> > Perhaps other arches don't have cache aliasing?  I know for sure i386
> > does not have that effect.
>
> The problem doesn't exist on physically indexed caches.  Also on read-only
> caches such as the instruction cache it usually can be ignored.  So for
> example the R2000, R3000, SB1 cores, RM7000, R4kc and R5kc in the right
> configurations and the R10000 family don't suffer from aliases.  Details
> are messy :)
>
>   Ralf