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On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 15:31 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> So there's lots of options to fix/improve this more intelligently.

Sure, and I like the alternative encoding thing best, but doing that
will take time, in the meantime this patch, which is relatively small
(and easy to revert once we get something better going) does fix a
problem for those few unfortunate souls still using P4 hardware.