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Samsung's Exynos 8 mixed-and-matched cores of different cache line sizes and didn't bother to make the reported cache lines be the same size. This recipe led t
by niftich 9y ago
Samsung's Exynos 8 mixed-and-matched cores of different cache line sizes and didn't bother to make the reported cache lines be the same size.
This recipe led to a hard-to-debug condition that the Mono team wrote about [1] (posted on HN [2]).
[1] http://www.mono-project.com/news/2016/09/12/arm64-icache/ http://www.mono-project.com/news/2016/09/12/arm64-icache/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12481700 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12481700
- marssaxman 9y agoThat is an unfortunate implementation. The concept is still interesting, though.