On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 04:05:51PM +0200, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> 
> Now the armv5 details: xenomai posix skin shared memories are uncached.
> plain linux shared memories are uncached when using fcse in guaranteed
> mode, and cached when using fcse in best effort mode or without fcse,
> but will trigger a cache flush when exiting the process where they are
> mapped. They are also uncached when mapped twice at two different
> addresses by the same process.

Thanks for the very thorough answer!

(Currently, I am working on a PowerPC project, happily ;)

> Shared memories are not really an IPC, since they do not take care of
> synchronization as other IPCs will do. However, for a fifo, this looks
> sufficient. A fifo without synchronization, however, will only take care
> of one producer and one consumer.

Yes, that is what I am doing.

Thanks,

Richard

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