Re: [PATCH] 2.5.14 IDE 56

Pavel Machek
2002-05-14T21:18:53Z

Hi!

> The tricky bit is to avoid prefetches over the boundary of your copy.
> Prefetching from an uncached area or write combined area (like the
> AGP gart which could start in next page) triggers hardware bugs in
> various boxes. This unfortunately complicates the prefetching loops
> a bit.

CONFIG_MY_MACHINE_AINT_BORKEN? We definitely could assume that on x86-64.

Pavel

--
Philips Velo 1: 1"x4"x8", 300gram, 60, 12MB, 40bogomips, linux, mutt,
details at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/velo/index.html.