Subject: Re: Random core dumps, more data
To: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net>
From: Mark Brinicombe <mark@causality.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 12/03/1998 14:31:53
On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Charles M. Hannum wrote:
>
> BTW, irrespective of whatever's broken in the cache flushing, it may
> be beneficial to change the PLT format to avoid needing the I cache
> flush. There are two reasons for this:
>
> 1) The I cache flushes are a performance hit -- especially for
> functions that are called infrequently or only once.
Yep that is why I don't do them for every jumpslot.
Just looking at the code I notice that in 1.4 of md.c you changed this
behaviour in August as part of a garbage collect commit which if I have
read the diff correct removed the behaviour I originally had.
Cheers,
Mark