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From: Randolph Chung <randolph@tausq.org>
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] DIFF use 6-regs in copy_user_page_asm
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 00:29:40 -0800
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> Is this something that would benefit older processors? Say a PCX-T
> processor?  Is this something worth testing?  I'm pretty sure I 
> have a PCX-T processor around I could boot up and test.

i have no idea, but we can test it and see. i've read some pdfs which
suggest that all pa20 processors can do this reordering, but i don't
know about pa11 processors. in any case, empirical results are always
better than speculation :)

randolph
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