Data Cache Coherency

The sdscc/sds++compilers automatically generate software configuration code for each data mover required by the system, including interfacing to underlying device drivers as needed. The default assumption is that the system compiler maintains cache coherency for the memory allocated to arrays passed between the CPU and hardware functions. Consequently, the compiler might generate code to perform a cache flush before transferring data to a hardware function and to perform a cache-invalidate before transferring data from a hardware function to the memory. Both actions are necessary for correctness, but have performance implications. When using Zynq® device HP ports, for example, you can override the default when you know that the CPU will not access the memory indicating that the correctness of the application does not depend on cache coherency. To avoid the overhead of unnecessary cache flushes use the following API to allocate memory.

void *sds_alloc_non_cacheable(size_t size)