On Wed, 29 May 2002, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > I converted a few flush_cache_all() invocations to __flush_cache_all() > > where appropriate late last year, but the function is a bit older. I > > think you might dig the linux-kernel list archives for a discussion on the > > semantics of flush_cache_all() (it's a nop for many MIPS CPUs) and > > friends. The short description in Documentation/cachetlb.txt is a bit > > insufficient, I'm afraid. > > I don't like that function very much; it's sort of a shotgun approach > to flushing caches in a part of the kernel that's not too performance > relevant. The whole interface sucks, should be replaced by something > more finegrained. Well, I suspect the API might be somewhat influenced by SPARC's oddities. ;-) -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
