Tuesday, May 3, 2011

dcbst - Data Cache Block Store instruction in PowerPC

If the byte specified by the effective address (EA) is cached by the data cache and the cache-line is modified (dirty), the entire contents of the cache-line are written to system memory. After the store completes, the cache-line is marked as unmodified (not dirty). But, the cache-line is not invalidated

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