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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] The problem on the PA8800 is all in the data-cache.
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:32:23 -0600
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On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 10:54:38PM -0400, Thibaut VARENE wrote:
> My take is that we see that bug so much more on pa8800 because of its
> huge cache and thus because we hit cache much more often than on all
> other machines...

I don't think so.  pa8800 has less cache per core than pa8700.  The L2
cache is ignorable for the purposes of this scenario, since it's
transparent to software.
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