Re: working xfree86 4.1.0?
Kars de Jong <jongk@linux-m68k.org> writes:
|> On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 03:03:15PM +0100, Richard Zidlicky wrote:
|> > the cacheflush syscall has been changed to work "reasonably"(*), ie if you
|> > tell it to flush more than 3 pages using cache line flush it will use page
|> > flush instead. Of course if the program does 2000 little lineflushes
|> > that won't help, you get terrible performance.
|>
|> The other architectures cache flushing code is called for every relocation,
|> so that would indeed amount to lots of little lineflushes. But how is the
|> length argument defined?
It defines the region to flush in bytes.
Andreas.
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