On Wed, 14 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Scratch the below, I just looked at the code and it appears to already
do this. Oh well, it was worth a shot!:)
>
> I had another thought: When you go to fill a line in the cache
> (32bytes), it's always filled a line at a time. I haven't looked at the
> Linux cache flushing code yet, but does it read all 32 bytes for each
> cache line fill? Would it be possible to speed up the cache flushing by
> reading just one word, which would fill a cache line, and then skipping
> ahead 32 bytes and reading another word, thus filling another cache line?
> Instead of having 8 reads per cache line fill, you would now only have
> 1. Just a thought.
>
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