Re: Athlon/3DNow write prefetch?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Aug 23 2001 - 13:18:12 EST

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> The Athlon/3DNow prefetchw() implementation uses the `prefetch' assembler
> instruction, which is in fact a read prefetch, while it should use the
> `prefetchw' instruction, which is for write prefetch.

Yep
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