>
>
> On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> >
> > Linus,
> > Will you please put this patch into some distribution on the near
> > future. It fixes the bobbling BogoMIPS that different Intel machines
> > produce with random cache-line refills. I can't possibly hurt anything
> > since it's just two jumps before the delay-loop.
>
> It doesn't help anything. This small patch just makes it jitter in
> different ways.
>
> 2.0.34+ has the right approach, but I haven't bothered to port it to
> 2.1.x, and apparently nobody else has either.
>
> Linus
>
Hmmm. It certainly helps here! It also has helped others who complained!
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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