On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 13:00 -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> You have physically indexed caches, thus cache coherency transactions
> should purge all cache lines with that same physical TAG.

No, we have virtually indexed but physically tagged caches; this is why
we have the problem (we have to select one of the aliases to flush).

> Direct I/O is another problematic case.

OK, I confess to not ever having looked at that ... does it use
get_user_pages() as well?

James


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