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2018 Nov 02
2
RFC: System (cache, etc.) model for LLVM
Am Do., 1. Nov. 2018 um 16:56 Uhr schrieb David Greene <dag at cray.com>:
> Ok. I would like to start posting patches for review without
> speculating too much on fancy/exotic things that may come later. We
> shouldn't do anything that precludes extensions but I don't want to get
> bogged down in a lot of details on things related to a small number of
> targets.
2018 Nov 07
3
RFC: System (cache, etc.) model for LLVM
...st two of the array
> store sequences will interfere with each other in the write-combining
> buffers and will force early flushes of the buffer, effectively turning
> them into single-store writes to memory. That's bad.
>
> Maybe the proper name for this concept is simply "WriteCombiningBuffer."
> I'm not sure if some other architecture might have a concept of store
> buffers that does something other than write-combining, so I was trying
> to use a fairly generic name to mean, "some compiler-controlled hardware
> buffer."
>
> There's a similar co...