Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll()

From: Lee Revell
Date: Thu Aug 18 2005 - 12:54:10 EST


On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 00:27 +0900, Akira Tsukamoto wrote:
> My computer with Athlon K7 was faster with manually prefetching,
> but I did not know it is already becoming obsolete.
>

Don't listen to people who tell you $FOO hardware is obsolete, they have
a very narrow view. "Obsolete" is meaningless except in reference to
some specific application. The 386 is obsolete on the desktop but still
common on the embedded market.

Lee

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