Xilinx FX60

Sergey Temerkhanov temerkhanov at yandex.ru
Thu Sep 6 08:05:13 EST 2007


On Thursday 06 September 2007 00:40:33 Ming Liu wrote:
> >It won't. There is no hardware cache coherency on Virtex.
>
> Is that possible if we turn off the cache?

Not in current versions. Implementation of SMP will require implementing 
functions from struct smp_ops_t (defined in include/asm-ppc/machdep.h) and 
some additional work. Maybe PIC redesign/modification will be needed. And 
after all there will be significant performance hit with caches disabled.



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