From: Mark Hatle <fray@mvista.com>
To: Rabeeh Khoury <rabeeh@il.marvell.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: dcbst instruction
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:35:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F37B7BB.1040206@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F37B4F1.2040702@il.marvell.com>
Rabeeh Khoury wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have a question about the PowerPC cache line clean dcbst instruction.
> Is this instruction used at all in Linux ?
> If used, where ? kernel ? libc ? special builds of user space
> applications ?
It is used in glibc. I have not seen off the shelf applications using
it, but I wouldn't be surprised if highly optimized apps did attempt to
use it.
As for the kernel, I would assume it's being used.. but a simple grep
should tell you if it is.
--Mark
> Thanks,
> Rabeeh
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-11 15:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-11 15:23 dcbst instruction Rabeeh Khoury
2003-08-11 15:35 ` Mark Hatle [this message]
2003-08-12 1:32 ` Paul Mackerras
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