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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Subject: Re: [patch] x86, mm: pass in 'total' to __copy_from_user_*nocache()
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> the entire point of using movntq and friends was to save half the

I thought the point was to not pollute caches? At least that is 
what I remember being told when I merged the patch.

-andi