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From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:59:54 +0000
Subject: RE: [patch 1/6] align kenrel rbs on 128 byte
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Richard Harke wrote on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 11:59 AM
> > Yeah, if nobody cares about UP performance. SMP_CACHE_BYTES is 8 bytes
> > on UP kernel (though it doesn't seem that anyone cares about UP).  I
> 
> Well, I care about UP. But HP, Intel and SGI have made it pretty clear
> they don't care about UP (or the customers that have UP machines)

I heard you.  L1_CACHE_BYTES it is, so everyone can be benefited from
the change: merced processor, UP, SMP you name it.

- Ken