Re: Real time cache management functions

yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu
Wed, 17 Jun 1998 05:59:01 -0600

On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 10:21:38AM +0100, Mike Jagdis wrote:
> For 10-30ms performance I would suspect that simply mlocking your
> memory so it never gets paged out would be sufficient. If memory

Agree.

> Of course, if you have a Cyrix 6x86MX you also have the option
> of locking down *L1* cache lines which would give you maximum
> execution speed with no cache artifacts. Everything else loses

Someone should make this available in a RTLinux module. We don't
have any Cyrix machines here so it has to be someone else.

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Victor Yodaiken
Department of Computer Science
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Socorro NM 87801
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