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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: ppluzhnikov@google.com (Paul Pluzhnikov)
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][patch] Make DCACHE_LINE runtime-settable
References: <20110722222025.ED9B6190B14@elbrus2.mtv.corp.google.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:01:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <20110722222025.ED9B6190B14@elbrus2.mtv.corp.google.com> (Paul	Pluzhnikov's message of "Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:20:25 -0700 (PDT)")
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>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com> writes:

Paul> Attached patch allows the user to e.g. "set dcache-line-size 4096" and
Paul> drastically reduce the number of round trips.

Paul> I've also added "set dcache-size" just for good measure.

It looks reasonable to me.

Since there is more than one setting starting with "dcache-", how about
adding a new prefix, and renaming to

  set dcache size
  set dcache line-size

?

Tom