Re: [x86] Fix prefetch instruction

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 08/05/2011 09:18 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> The prefetchnta instruction used for prefetching on x86 is a special instruction
> used for streaming that is usually used to avoid polluting the l2 and l3 caches.
> The cacheline will be evicted rapidly.
> 
> What we need is a prefetch that puts the cacheline in all levels of the cache hierachy instead.
> Change the instruction to do that.
> 
> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
> 

Have you done any performance analysis on this versus the null case?  I
know there are some workloads where it helps, but if it hurts as many as
it helps...

	-hpa

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