From: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:38:32 -0700 (PDT)
> I think (but may be mistaken) that ARM _does_ have pure virtual caches > with a process ID, but people have always ended up flushing them at > context switch simply because it just causes too much trouble. > > Sparc? VIPT too? Davem? sun4c is VIVT, but has no SMP variants. sun4m has both VIPT and PIPT. > But it would be good to have something for the early -rc1 sequence for > 2.6.20, and maybe the MIPS COW D$ patches are it, if it has performance > advantages on MIPS that can also be translated to other virtual cache > users.. I think it could help for sun4m highmem configs. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
