Thread (6 messages) flat view 6 messages, 2 authors, 2005-08-09

Re: How to disable dcache on MPC82xx platform

From: Dan Malek <hidden>
Date: 2005-08-09 14:36:56

On Aug 8, 2005, at 10:30 PM, Prashant Alange wrote:
I am using alloc_bootmem_page() function to allocate memory required
in my custom ethernet driver.
Why?  Just use the normal Linux memory allocators.
 So I am thinking this could be because of cache since this
driver is working fine on non-os platform. I want to disable the
dcache for this memory region.
This is a fully cache coherent processor, there is no need to
disable caching, nor is there any easy way to do this in the
current Linux implementation.  This would require a custom
kernel, and you couldn't take advantage of the general
performance gain using BATs.

Thanks.

	-- Dan
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