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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 09/17] Add all cpus option to stop machine run
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:34:32 +1000
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On Thursday 10 April 2008 04:24:54 Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 10:10:10PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > I continue to think that all this so-called "immediate" infrastructure
> > is an absolute overkill and declared D-cache line savings will _never_
> > matter
>
> You are quite wrong on that.

Well, Alexey did make me read through the patches reasonably thoroughly.

I think it's interesting, and to be honest the current simplified approach 
just isn't that scary.  There are some minor warts, but it's generally sound.

Cheers,
Rusty.