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Fine-Grained Address-Translation Cache Invalidation (Svinval)

First @risc_v Tip of 2022!

The final new extension added in the v1.12 Privileged Spec is “Fine-Grained Address-Translation Cache Invalidation” (Svinval). It breaks SFENCE.VMA into three distinct instructions, allowing for its operations to be more efficiently pipelined.

22-01-01

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