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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 08:59:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: adjust prefetch in free_one_pgd()
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On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 08:46:38AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>  > Personally, I would just say that we should disable prefetch on such
>  > clearly broken hardware, but since it's Alans favourite machine (some
>  > early AMD Athlon if I remember correctly), I think Alan will disagree ;)
>
> I think I now understand why you silently dropped the 'disable broken hw
> prefetch on early stepping P4' patch I sent you. 8-)

No, I don't think either I (nor Alan) has any early stepping P4's.

Me dropping patches is just normal ;)

		Linus

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