On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:13:09 +0800, "Zou, Nanhai" <nanhai....@intel.com> wrote:
> If I upload input buffer with movnti or movntdq (bypass cache) + > sfence(clear write combine buffer) in the end, clflush should > not be needed. Alas, neither of these will flush existing cached data, so you must still use clflush to ensure that the data makes it out to memory. All that they do is avoid consuming additional cache lines. You want to use a write combining mapping, which should give you full bandwidth access to memory without hitting any caches. You can use the GTT mapping as the aperture is configured for write combining access, or we can figure out how to make PAT work. > Since it is CPU read only surface, clflush in not needed at all. You'd still have to invalidate cache lines using clflush to avoid using stale data in the CPU cache. -- keith.pack...@intel.com
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