Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 04:16:21PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > > > Well, the QEMU cpu has 2-way 2kB dcache... does not have aliasing > > > anyway. :-) > > > > I don't think emulating a bigger cache so that we can add aliases should > > be *that* difficult. Adding aliases themselves might be a bit trickier, > > but the gain would certainly justify the hassle, wouldn't it? > > The cache lookup for every access would have serious impact on performance. > The question is, is it worth the price? Would such patches be acceptable > by the upstream qemu maintainers? Likely not, given that performance is the prime criterion there. Thiemo
