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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:43:46 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/27] Add book3s_64 specific opcode emulation
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To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, kvm-ppc <kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org, bphilips@suse.de, Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>

On Tuesday 03 November 2009, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> (Though glibc can be nasty, afaik it might load up optimized variants of
> some routines with hard wired cache line sizes based on the CPU type)

You can also get application with hand-coded cache optimizations
that are even harder, if not impossible, to fix.

	Arnd <><