Subject: Re: more on understanding caches.
To: Toru Nishimura <nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp>
From: Soren S. Jorvang <soren@wheel.dk>
List: port-mips
Date: 07/22/2000 21:42:07
On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 02:35:15PM +0900, Toru Nishimura wrote:
> How about to deduct to have the following cache primitives;
> 
>  - Invalidate

>  - Synchronize

>  - Flush
>         Make sure target address range contents synchronized
>         with cache, if any, then discard the copy in cache.

I would prefer to avoid the ambiguous 'flush' term, and have the
operations be named along these lines.

Invalidate
Writeback
Writeback+Invalidate


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Soren