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- Phil Norman wrote:
-
- > Actually, SWP is really a Bad Thing (TM) for future technologies. SWP,
- > for some reason, bypasses the cache. This generates BIG problems if you
- > have multiple processors. SWP bypassing the cache is especially bad since
- > it means there isn't an atomic instruction for swapping if you want
- > multiprocessing to work properly (unless you do kludgy things). So maybe
- > SWP should be avoided altogether?
-
- Whaaaat? Can you tell me how it would work if it *didn't* bypass the
- cache?
-
- Regards,
-
- Neil
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- Neil A. Carson
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