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

Adrian Bunk
2003-09-15T20:54:49Z

On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 06:32:49PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
>...
> While I like Adrian's patch a lot from a functionality and user
> simplicity point of view, the key to getting it merged is not to
> increase the complexity of the implementation. The only objections to
> the concept came from people who didn't understand it AFAIK.
>...

My impresion is that much problem comes from the fact that I didn't
split the patch the first time I sent it.

Most of the oppositon came against the arch/i386/kernel/cpu/{,mtrr/}
optimizations that are more an eample of how to achive further space
savings in this scheme but not a required part of this patch.

The main part wasn't non-controversal but it didn't have such a big
number of opponents.

cu
Adrian

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