From: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
Organization: Working Overloaded Linux Kernel
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [CFT,PATCH] cpu detection for 2.6.5-rc1-mm2
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 20:50:35 +0100
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On Thursday 18 March 2004 19:56, Manfred Spraul wrote:

Hi Manfred,

> 2.6.5-rc1-mm2 contains new slab code that is more memory efficient by
> setting (and thus reducing) the alignment of the objects based on the
> actual cpu cache line size. This means that the cpu identification must
> be done far earlier than before and that caused the boot problems with
> 2.6.5-mm1.
> Attached is a new proposal against 2.6.5-rc1-mm2 - could you give it a
> try? It's tested with Pentium 4, bochs (i.e. Intel Pentium) and Athlon
> XP cpus.

works for me too where the previous patches did not. Many thanks :)

ciao, Marc

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