Re: [PATCH] 2.6 workaround for Athlon/Opteron prefetch errata

Alan Cox
2003-09-15T07:43:49Z

On Llu, 2003-09-15 at 07:32, John Bradford wrote:
> That's a non-issue. 300 bytes matters a lot on some systems. The
> fact that there are drivers that are bloated is nothing to do with
> it.

Its kind of irrelevant when by saying "Athlon" you've added 128 byte
alignment to all the cache friendly structure padding. There are systems
where memory matters, but spending a week chasing 300 bytes when you can
knock out 50K is a waste of everyones time. Do the 40K problems first