On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 12:02:27AM +0100, Dominic Sweetman wrote: > PS: my standard appeal. When you say you 'flush' a cache do you mean > invalidate, write-back, or both? If (as I suspect) not all of you > mean the same thing, should you not instead speak of 'invalidate' and > 'writeback'... sloppy language surely leads to sloppy programming? I already had discussions with 68k people about this problem of terminology. It seems there is no unambigous terms for the whole ``cachology'' in the industry. Ralf
