Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Sep 2003 15:14:51 +0100 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.6 workaround for Athlon/Opteron prefetch errata |
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On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 04:01:08PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > What's wrong with the current status quo that just says "Athlon prefetch > > is broken"? > It doesn't fix user space for once.
And for another, it cripples the earlier athlons which don't have this errata. Andi's fix at least makes prefetch work again on those boxes. It's also arguable that prefetch() helps the older K7's more than the affected ones.
Dave
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