Re: adjust prefetch in free_one_pgd()

From: Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 10:56:09 EST

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On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 08:46:38AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Personally, I would just say that we should disable prefetch on such
> clearly broken hardware, but since it's Alans favourite machine (some
> early AMD Athlon if I remember correctly), I think Alan will disagree ;)

I think I now understand why you silently dropped the 'disable broken hw
prefetch on early stepping P4' patch I sent you. 8-)

Dave

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