From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753377AbYIQFzk (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:55:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751214AbYIQFzd (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:55:33 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.186]:59779 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751025AbYIQFzd (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:55:33 -0400 Message-ID: <48D09BC2.1040704@manoweb.com> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:55:14 -0700 From: Alessio Sangalli User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080724) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu CC: Ben Nizette , Ben Dooks , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Driver for tightly coupled memory References: <48CEC71F.3000006@manoweb.com> <20080916093513.GF1916@fluff.org.uk> <48CFEF3F.5040901@manoweb.com> <1221604022.3598.4.camel@moss.renham> <48D03811.9070805@manoweb.com> <24229.1221619342@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <48D0954D.4070302@manoweb.com> <32819.1221629978@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <32819.1221629978@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/BGM91PW1FgxTLdKsIqp6kUWEYs59/YfbWuuz QG+gKjFcKxQtO0/YYh998ff5YARfffpeLDXjdLjW5kTH0WBS7U otFA5zipZx9OI81yDo2fg== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > Would it be more of a performance win to use the 8-32K to store speed-critical > code rather than a FIFO? Just another idea for what to use it for, but that > would likely require a different API... Well... I have to check but I think the cache memory is anyway faster than this, and this memory is not cacheable. But, you definitely have a point. I'll check with some hardware guy tomorrow morning. bye! as