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From: "saeed bishara" <saeed.bishara@gmail.com>
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I just want to say that this code reordering reduced the I cache
misses of my system that includes direct mapped caches,  and the
perforamance of a the optimezed tests increased up to 10% and in some
case it improved by 20%.

saeed


> Thanks for testing; I've applied this patch so 2.6.17-rc2 onwards will
> have this fixed.
>