linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH resend 5/9] MIPS: sync after cacheflush

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Message-ID: <20101018225056.GI27377@linux-mips.org>
Date:	Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:50:56 +0100
From:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
To:	Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@...il.com>
Cc:	Shinya Kuribayashi <skuribay@...ox.com>, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend 5/9] MIPS: sync after cacheflush

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:41:20PM -0700, Kevin Cernekee wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org> wrote:
> > I'm trying to get a statement from the MIPS architecture guys if the
> > necessity to do anything beyond a cache flush is an architecture violation.
> 
> IMO such a requirement would be unnecessarily strict.  Larger flushes
> (e.g. page at a time) tend to benefit from some form of pipelining or
> write gathering.  Forcing the processor to flush exactly 32 bytes at a
> time, synchronously, could really slow things down and thrash the
> memory controller.
> 
> I have not been able to find any official statement from MIPS that
> says that CACHE + SYNC should be used, but that seems like the most
> intuitive way to implement things on the hardware side.

I agree with you but I seem to remember having read something that suggests
otherwise.  Oh well, maybe it's just something in the Cambridge water
that makes my halocinate ;)

  Ralf
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