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From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 08:30:41 +0000
Subject: RE: Add prefetch switch stack hook in scheduler function
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To: 'Ingo Molnar' <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>, David.Mosberger@acm.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org

Ingo Molnar wrote on Friday, July 29, 2005 12:07 AM
> the patch below unrolls the prefetch_range() loop manually, for up to 5 
> cachelines prefetched. This patch, ontop of the 4 previous patches, 
> should generate similar code to the assembly code in your original 
> patch. The full patch-series is:

It generate slight different code because previous patch asks for a little
over 5 cache lines worth of bytes and it always go to the for loop.