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Ralf Baechle wrote:

>On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 01:04:31PM -0400, Greg Weeks wrote:
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>>It appears to be turned on always now.
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>Correct.
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>>>From arch/mips/Kconfig
>>
>>config CPU_MIPS32
>>   bool "MIPS32"
>>   select CPU_SUPPORTS_32BIT_KERNEL
>>   select CPU_HAS_PREFETCH
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>>I'll try turning it off directly in the memcpy function.
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>That's certainly a hack - but likely to result in the best performance.
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It's the quickest way to find out if it's the problem I'm seeing. It 
appears to be. Now, what's the best way to fix this for real?

Greg Weeks