From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com
Subject: Re: adjust prefetch in free_one_pgd()
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 17:56:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020802175608.O25761@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208020844000.18265-100000@home.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 08:46:38AM -0700
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-02 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-02 0:12 David Mosberger
2002-08-02 13:04 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-02 15:39 ` David Mosberger
2002-08-02 15:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-02 15:56 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-08-02 15:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-02 16:04 ` Dave Jones
2002-08-02 17:49 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-02 16:38 ` David Mosberger
2002-08-02 17:58 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-02 16:53 ` David Mosberger
2002-08-03 16:59 ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-03 17:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-03 17:39 ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-03 19:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-03 22:03 ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-03 22:40 ` Linus Torvalds
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