Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Aug 1999 12:50:21 +0200 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: Cache incoherencies |
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On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 02:13:53PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Sounds interesting, but implementing this is beyond my current knowledge > of Linux internals. > > I think I'll first implement vmalloc_uncached for my specific machine, so > at least I can make sure I have a working net driver for now, but I'll > need help to implement the kind of solution you are talking about.
vmalloc isn't a good general solution as it allocates non-continguous physical pages. It also would require drivers to walk page tables and you know Linus' opinion about that ...
Ralf
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