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Date:      Fri, 22 May 2009 03:25:58 +1000 (EST)
From:      Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>, FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [patch] __syncicache: eliminate D-cache flush
Message-ID:  <20090522032558.ETR51534@dommail.onthenet.com.au>

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Hi Marcel,

>I'd like to commit the following change, which basically
>removes the D-cache flush from syncicache.

 Isn't that required so that future instruction fetches will
always pull in the value from memory and not have it sitting
in the d-cache waiting to be flushed ?

 Or is the d-cache policy always write-through on AIM systems
of interest ?

later,

Peter.


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