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On Apr 15, 2004, at 7:01 PM, Brett Lymn wrote:

> cache flushing would probably be the least of your worries given that
> the HyperSPARC processors do some serious snooping of each other's
> caches so there would be some serious cache coherency problems.  That
> totally leaves aside the variations in write posting behaviour :)

But do they use the same snooping protocol as SuperSPARCs?  What about 
I-cache handling?

The point is, there are differences between the two types, and trying 
to handle those on a per-cpu basis is not practical.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>


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