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From: Christian Hildner <christian.hildner@hob.de>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 08:43:02 +0000
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] [PATCH] Performance Patch for TLB misses
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David Mosberger schrieb:

> Useless to the user, but dangerous to the health of the machine!
> Please note that attribute aliasing can lead to a machine-check and
> therefore is an absolute no-no (the machine check could be triggered
> either by a hardware-prefetch or due to speculative memory accesses
> inside the kernel).
>
>         --david

David, John, Mario,

I still haven't read volume 2 (System Architecture) to the end, so I learned another piece of
the total complexity of IA64 now. Maybe you want to use the other two ideas for 2.5 kernels. But
only if you like them.

Christian