On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 03:18:00PM +0200, Mohamed Bamakhrama wrote: > In those two header files, flush & invalidate operations were > implemented. Nevertheless, the MIPS32 core supports cache locking as > well. Is there any implementations for Fetch&Lock instructions within > the kernel? No. The primary use for cache locking seems to be the rather extreme realtime requirements, a league where Linux isn't playing quite yet. For a more general purpose OS locking has a good chance of doing more harm than help. Ralf
