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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/27] Add book3s_64 specific opcode emulation
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 09:43:46 +0100
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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 <><