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From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, benh@kernel.crashing.org
Subject: problem with cache flush routine for G5?
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 16:06:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40479A50.9090605@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)


We're running into issues with the "flush_data_cache" routine on the G5.

For the G5, the L1 dcache is 32K and the L2 cache is 512K. At 128 
bytes/cacheline, that's 256 and 4096 cachelines, respectively.

In the existing tree, NUM_CACHE_LINES is set to 128*8, or 1024.  Is this 
an oversight or am I missing something?

Also, I'm curious why the dcbf instruction is not used for this.

Chris

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             reply	other threads:[~2004-03-04 21:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-04 21:06 Chris Friesen [this message]
2004-03-04 23:51 ` problem with cache flush routine for G5? Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-03-04 23:57   ` Tom Rini
2004-03-05  0:04     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-03-05  0:44       ` Chris Friesen
2004-03-05 15:15       ` Tom Rini
2004-03-05 23:51         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-03-05  0:37   ` Chris Friesen
2004-03-05  2:10     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-03-05  5:39       ` Chris Friesen
2004-03-05  5:46         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-03-05 17:21           ` Chris Friesen
2004-03-05 23:53             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-03-06  1:34             ` Segher Boessenkool
2004-03-06  2:31             ` Anton Blanchard

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