Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.6 workaround for Athlon/Opteron prefetch errata | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:40:51 +0100 |
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On Llu, 2003-09-15 at 07:32, John Bradford wrote: > That's a non-issue. 300 bytes matters a lot on some systems. The > fact that there are drivers that are bloated is nothing to do with > it.
Its kind of irrelevant when by saying "Athlon" you've added 128 byte alignment to all the cache friendly structure padding. There are systems where memory matters, but spending a week chasing 300 bytes when you can knock out 50K is a waste of everyones time. Do the 40K problems first
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