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Getting a handle on caching

Getting a handle on caching

Posted May 15, 2008 20:07 UTC (Thu) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
Parent article: Getting a handle on caching

That's all quite sensible, but what's this "uc minus" thing that keeps showing up in charts
and comments?


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Getting a handle on caching

Posted May 15, 2008 21:47 UTC (Thu) by arjan (subscriber, #36785) [Link]

"UC minus" is basically "Uncached unless something else says otherwise".

So if PAT says "UC minus" and the MTRR says "Write Combining" the result is "Write combining".

However if PAT had said "strong UC" and the MTRR had said "Write combining", the result would
have been "Uncached"


Getting a handle on caching

Posted May 15, 2008 21:55 UTC (Thu) by arjan (subscriber, #36785) [Link]

(just to clarify; if PAT says "UC minus" and the MTRR says "Cached" then the outcome is still
"uncached"; so it's really "Uncached unless the MTRR says write combining")

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