From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com
Subject: Re: adjust prefetch in free_one_pgd()
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 18:04:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020802180414.Q25761@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208020859060.18265-100000@home.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 08:59:35AM -0700
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 08:59:35AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > Personally, I would just say that we should disable prefetch on such
> > > clearly broken hardware, but since it's Alans favourite machine (some
> > > early AMD Athlon if I remember correctly), I think Alan will disagree ;)
> > I think I now understand why you silently dropped the 'disable broken hw
> > prefetch on early stepping P4' patch I sent you. 8-)
>
> No, I don't think either I (nor Alan) has any early stepping P4's.
> Me dropping patches is just normal ;)
Hmm, it was in the patch including Patricks cpu/ reorganisation,
so it seems you applied it, and then hacked it out 8-)
*shines spotlight on Linus*
Oh well, I'll retransmit sometime. I've been really lax about pushing
stuff to you of late anyway, so a big push when I come back from
my vacation would be a good thing.
Dave
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| Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-02 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-02 0:12 adjust prefetch in free_one_pgd() David Mosberger
2002-08-02 13:04 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-02 15:39 ` David Mosberger
2002-08-02 15:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-02 15:56 ` Dave Jones
2002-08-02 15:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-02 16:04 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-08-02 17:49 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-02 16:38 ` David Mosberger
2002-08-02 17:58 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-02 16:53 ` David Mosberger
2002-08-03 16:59 ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-03 17:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-03 17:39 ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-03 19:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-03 22:03 ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-03 22:40 ` Linus Torvalds
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