From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 13:31:43 -0800
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Fw: potential /dev/urandom scalability improvement
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>>>>> On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 18:23:26 +0000, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> said:

  Dave> The proposed only user of this may take care of this
  Dave> requirement, but I'm more concerned someone not aware of this
  Dave> requirement using this helper routine. At the least it
  Dave> deserves a comment IMO.

A comment sounds like a fine idea.  But while at it, the equivalent
comment for prefetch() and prefetchw() seems just as appropriate and
perhaps even more important.

	--david
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