From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 20:07:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 20:07:12 -0500 Received: from dsl-213-023-060-099.arcor-ip.net ([213.23.60.99]:16103 "EHLO spot.lan") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 20:07:11 -0500 From: Oliver Feiler To: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: Athlon adv speculative caching fix removed from 2.4.20? Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 02:16:52 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200302102321.30549.kiza@gmx.net.suse.lists.linux.kernel> In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key-Fingerprint: E9DD 32F1 FA8A 0945 6A74 07DE 3A98 9F65 561D 4FD2 X-PGP-Key: http://kiza.kcore.de/pgpkey.shtml X-Species: Snow Leopard X-Operating-System: Linux i686 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302110216.53111.kiza@gmx.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 10 February 2003 23:36, Andi Kleen wrote: > > The "long term" fix for it went in instead (arch/i386/mm/pageattr.c) > The kernel is careful now to not create conflicting cache attributes > for AGP and other mappings. This makes the linux kernel x86 > conformant in this area. It also increases performance on > Athlon XP/MP because they can now use large pages in kernel space again. Ah yes, indeed. I must have missed that. :) Thanks for the quick answers everyone. -Oliver -- Oliver Feiler http://kiza.kcore.de/ <-- homepage PGP-key --> /pgpkey.shtml http://kiza.kcore.de/journal/