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

Andi Kleen
2003-09-11T14:01:18Z

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 06:54:53 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

>
> This patch is fragile and looks pointless.

Why do you think it is fragile? I don't see anything fragile in it.

>
> What's wrong with the current status quo that just says "Athlon prefetch
> is broken"?

It doesn't fix user space for once.

-Andi