On Aug 8, 2005, at 10:30 PM, Prashant Alange wrote:
> I am using alloc_bootmem_page() function to allocate memory required
> in my custom ethernet driver.
Why? Just use the normal Linux memory allocators.
> So I am thinking this could be because of cache since this
> driver is working fine on non-os platform. I want to disable the
> dcache for this memory region.
This is a fully cache coherent processor, there is no need to
disable caching, nor is there any easy way to do this in the
current Linux implementation. This would require a custom
kernel, and you couldn't take advantage of the general
performance gain using BATs.
Thanks.
-- Dan
