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