20 Jun
2005
20 Jun
'05
8:03 a.m.
On Monday 20 June 2005 01:10, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 23:17 -0400, Peter Arremann wrote:
Hmmm - just a guess but the 32KB aren't cache, they are a buffer needed by the controller when writing data to different busses.
I used the term "cache" because it's 0 wait state. In reality, cache v. buffer is really more of an OS concept.
I use "cache" for 0 wait state memory and "buffer" for high latency memory when I talk I/O hardware.
Fair enough - I usually go by buffer as memory to work in (i.e. calculate checksums and so on) while cache is used to defer actions (like writing to disk) to a later point in time :-)
Peter.