Re: How does bsd deal with architectures that have cache aliasing?

>If someone wouldn't mind pointing at the relevant pieces of the
>kernel that deals with cache aliasing for hardware that has
>this "feature" I would appreciate it.  I just wanted to get
>the gist of how the BSD kernel deals with this issue.

if i understand your question, the answer is probably: look through
the kernel source for PMAP_PREFER().  that's the machine-dependent
hook into vm that attempts to align mappings for optimal cache effect.

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