Re: Anyone noticed that there are a lot of cache flushes after kunmap/kunmap_atomic is called?

["Jon Fraser" <jfraser@broadcom.com>]

David,

I agree.  It's my number one work item this week.  Well,
so far, anyway :-)

Jon


On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 16:19 -0700, David VomLehn wrote:
> Jon Fraser wrote:
> > David,
> > 
> >   I'm battling this now.  Our mips 24k has a virtually indexed cache.
> > We're definitely seeing issues where the cache hasn't been flushed
> > for highmem pages.  I thought I had this fixed, but I'm still seeing
> > some problems.
> 
> As I understand it, you have the most difficult combination of things:
> o You are using high memory
> o You have a virtually indexed cache
> o You have data cache aliases
> 
> Fortunately, we have only the first two of those in our system. We should 
> probably put together a coherent set of patches for people who want high 
> memory. 
> So far as I can tell, the 32-bit MIPS architecture has a long way to go 
> before it 
> runs out of steam in the embedded world. I expect more people will need MIPS 
> highmem support in the next few years.
> 
> David
> 
>