Help with string.S

David Edelsohn dje at watson.ibm.com
Tue Jul 11 01:17:02 EST 2000


>>>>> Daniel Marmier writes:

Daniel> IIRC, I have sent you a patch that did the right thing for 16-byte
Daniel> cache lines at time of 2.3.99-pre5. So this is a known problem and
Daniel> had already been fixed. Of course, if there are caches with 64 or
Daniel> 128 byte lines, some more work needs to be done.

	Current 64-bit PowerPC chips use a cacheline size of 128 bytes.
Assuming 32 bytes or 32 bytes and 16 bytes or any small number of values
is a mistake.

David

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