Re: PATCH 2.3.26: kmalloc GFP_ZERO

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 10 Nov 1999 14:32:49 +0100

Alan Cox wrote:
> The Preventium III has cache bypass and burst stuff in the KNI instructions
> so once Doug's stuff is in it doesn't hold there either.

I am under the impression that the "optimised strings" rep stosl on
Preventium Pros and up does cache bypass. I could be wrong.

There are also MTRRs and some page table MTRR-lookalike mumble for those
specialised burst writing cases too.

-- Jamie

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