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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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Rainer Keller wrote:
> PS: Because of usage of prefetch in include/linux/list.h, the memory
> prefetch is triggered 137 times on my configuration...

We need to merge in __builtin_prefetch support into the kernel, because
gcc 3.1 recently got support for it.  It would be nice at least for
future prefetch-related patches to perhaps call __builtin_prefetch, and
have the headers substitute a prefetch if the compiler does not support
it.

	Jeff



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