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Subject: Re: Partial cacheline flush problems on ARM and MIPS
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[snip]

Whoa, there's USB code that has these small buffers straddle cache lines?

Why aren't they just allocated to always be in their own separate
buffers, so they don't ever have to worry about overlapping cache
lines?



Adrian