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   From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
   Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 23:35:04 -0800

   b) Except for certain specialised workloads, a lookup is usually
      associated with a big memory copy, so none of it matters and

I disagree, cache pollution always matters.  Especially, if the cpu
does memcpy's using cache-bypass-on-miss.

Franks a lot,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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