Re: virtual cache, TLB, and OS

2006-12-09 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
xu feng wrote: > I am just confused about the author: > 1- first point, why the cache has to be bothered by > the change in the address logical-physical mapping > since it is a virtual cache?? > If you: 1. mmap file A at virtual address X 2. use memory at X 3. mmap file B at X 4.

virtual cache, TLB, and OS

2006-12-09 Thread xu feng
Hi, I wish to be personally CC'ed the answers/comments posted to the list in response to this post. I am confused about the following point regarding Virtual Indexed Tag Indexed Cache and i would appreciate any help I have read in this article http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7105 , the

virtual cache, TLB, and OS

2006-12-09 Thread xu feng
Hi, I wish to be personally CC'ed the answers/comments posted to the list in response to this post. I am confused about the following point regarding Virtual Indexed Tag Indexed Cache and i would appreciate any help I have read in this article http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7105 , the

Re: virtual cache, TLB, and OS

2006-12-09 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
xu feng wrote: I am just confused about the author: 1- first point, why the cache has to be bothered by the change in the address logical-physical mapping since it is a virtual cache?? If you: 1. mmap file A at virtual address X 2. use memory at X 3. mmap file B at X 4. look