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From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: adjust prefetch in free_one_pgd()
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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-)

        Dave

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