On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Etienne Lorrain
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  The PPC has a very fast dcbz (data cache block zero) to clear memory,
> and also dcbi (data cache block invalidate) which permit to have a
> cached line caching an address without reading first the memory (when
> you plan to write the whole line).
>  The code in opensolaris.org doesn't seem to handle that.

Except dcbz does not work for caching-inhibited memory (as it will
cause an alignment exception) so ...

-- Pinski

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