dcbz works on 862 everywhere!

Joakim Tjernlund joakim.tjernlund at lumentis.se
Wed Mar 26 04:37:55 EST 2003


> > For a long time, we "solved" these problems on 8xx by not properly
> > implementing copy-on-write pages and always marking pages dirty.
> > It reduced the likelyhood of the problem, reduced the MMU overhead,
> > but cost lots more in memory and processing time during forks.
> > This still may not be a bad configuration option for selected
> > applications.
>
> Is it easy to patch/hard code? I would like to test the stability of my system.

I am still intrested in trying copy-on-write but I can't figure out
how. Is it a big job? Any pointers?

  Jocke


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