----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Davis" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 4:54 PM Subject: [gmpi] Re: multithreading host interface > >again i don't understand. Where did you see processor writing or reading in > >the cache of an other one !? there is shared memory and there is cache > >mechanism to provide each processors with the currents state of this share > >memory. > > memory accessed via the cache is "cached memory". memory not accessed [... useless blabla] > i am really trying very, very hard to be patient here. very ! yes ! thanks, > the CPU > accesses all other memory via the **cache** and the cache communicates > with the memory via the bus. the question is therefore not whether 32 > bit writes over the bus are atomic (they are), but whether the cache > protocol provides this as well. ha ! something interesting ! so you say that maybe the cache wouldn't be atomic like the BUS and that could explain the problem !? so why it is so difficult to find a paper at Sun Microsystem which explain this little strange thing !? instead of providing me your famous contact list, give me an URL. > >Linux Kernel Hacker !? what is that !? a kid who beleive that he is > >programmer ! :-))) or it's the new name for IBM employee !? :-) > > now you're just being insulting. ha sorry , i thought you would appreciate this joke. no, i like Linux, i'm actually working on RT linux to make some evaluation and test. but i don't like very well some of Linux guy, you know they always want to be right, they program usually nearly nothing (these kind of guy are able to found a company just because they programmed 20 lines :-) but they always want to explain you how the things goes, and so on , sometimes they pass all the entire week to write messages on the internet just to talk by copying documentation or repeating what someone else said... wow ! it's very boring. by the way , you are working on what Paul ! :-) Vincent Burel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Generalized Music Plugin Interface (GMPI) public discussion list Participation in this list is contingent upon your abiding by the following rules: Please stay on topic. You are responsible for your own words. Please respect your fellow subscribers. Please do not redistribute anyone else's words without their permission. Archive: //www.freelists.org/archives/gmpi Email gmpi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx w/ subject "unsubscribe" to unsubscribe