On 08/02/2013 03:12 PM, Christos wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am developing a program in C and I want to lock some memory pages in > cache, particularly in the core specific level (i.e. level 1). As far as > I know the C libraries do not provide an interface to do that so I guess > that there must be some particular directives in gcc to do so. __builtin_prefetch() is what you need. However, there's no way you'll be able to lock anything in L1: it'll be evicted very shortly afterwards. Andrew.