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> >Is there any reason to keep the L2 cache data-only ?
>
> There are some rare cases where it can be useful, yes. Like when flushing
> it, to avoid the flush code to pollute it.

A few bytes inside a 1MB cache are't a problem IMHO. Anyway I enabled it and
performance compiling programs is 15% lower.

Bye.

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