Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:00:55 +1000 | From | Paul Mackerras <> | Subject | Re: prefetch on ppc64 |
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Antonio Vargas writes:
> Don't know exactly about power5, but G5 processor is described on IBM > docs as doing automatic whole-page prefetch read-ahead when detecting > linear accesses.
Sure, but linked lists would rarely be laid out linearly in memory.
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