On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 10:01 +0200, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote: > I don't believe you are correct. As long as: > [associativity]*[page size] >= [cache size] > there should be no problem. > > There are only two possible issues that can happen in the cache:
You're probably right... I was thinking about a disaster scenario where a process writes a buffer which is then read by another process that maps it to a different virtual address (so the TLB is modified for this buffer but the caches are not flushed), but I can't think of it again :-P S. _______________________________________________ http://lists.milkymist.org/listinfo.cgi/devel-milkymist.org IRC: #milkymist@Freenode Twitter: www.twitter.com/milkymistvj Ideas? http://milkymist.uservoice.com
