On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 19:18 +0200, Norman Feske wrote:
> So I think it would be sensible to go for your proposal b) and see how far we
> get. At least for our custom OS, I have a few ideas in mind about how to
> handle the aliasing problems. For Linux, I don't know.

Ok. Hardware-wise, your solution is a superset of mine anyway, so we
could implement the missing bits later to try yours.

> For such cases, an instruction in the line of 'clflush' (as
> provided by the x86 architecture) would be good to have. It enables
> the program to explicitly flush cache lines by specifying a virtual
> address.

This shouldn't be too hard to add.

S.


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