On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:02:46 -0800 (PST) dean gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Bulk ops (string ops, etc.) will do full cacheline writes too, > > without filling in the cacheline. > > on intel with fast strings enabled yes. mind you intel gives hints in > the documentation these operations don't respect coherence... and i > asked about this when they posted their memory ordering paper but got > no response. I know there's an answer on the way; it just needs to get checked by architects for cpus we shipped in like the last 10 years ;) -- If you want to reach me at my work email, use [EMAIL PROTECTED] For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
