Re: Uncool feature for TTM introduced by x86, pat: Use page flags to track memtypes of RAM pages

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Feb 18 2010 - 12:27:53 EST


Jerome Glisse <glisse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> Can we modify the interface to support again changing from uc to wc
> or wc to uc ? (i can try to do a patch for that).

At least on Intel CPUs that support self-snoop (all modern
ones) that should really be very cheap.

-Andi

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