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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:46:36 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: thread_info implementation
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   From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
   Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 18:14:22 +0100

   > The thing is going to be fully hot in the cache all the time, there
   > is no way you'll take a cache miss for this dereference.
   
   So you essentially made your cache one cacheline smaller.

Not at all, that cacheline has to be in the cache anyways because
it also holds all the other information which needs to be accessed
during trap entry/exit.

Try again.
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