Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll()

Lee Revell
2005-08-18T17:53:40Z

On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 00:27 +0900, Akira Tsukamoto wrote:
> My computer with Athlon K7 was faster with manually prefetching,
> but I did not know it is already becoming obsolete.
>

Don't listen to people who tell you $FOO hardware is obsolete, they have
a very narrow view. "Obsolete" is meaningless except in reference to
some specific application. The 386 is obsolete on the desktop but still
common on the embedded market.

Lee