From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test3-mm3
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:10:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030819141000.7df20405.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030819183249.GD19465@matchmail.com>
Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 01:38:34AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > +disable-athlon-prefetch.patch
> >
> > Disable prefetch() on all AMD CPUs. It seems to need significant work to
> > get right and we're currently getting rare oopses with K7's.
>
> Is this going to stay in -mm, or will it eventually propogate to stock?
That depends if someone does any work on it in the next few days I guess.
Right now we're getting mysterious oopses down inside fine_inode_fast,
which is unacceptable.
> If it does, can this be added to the to-do list of things to fix before 2.6.0?
>
> I'd hate to see this feature lost...
Show me a workload in which it makes a measurable difference.
But no, it won't get forgotten.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-19 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-19 8:38 2.6.0-test3-mm3 Andrew Morton
2003-08-19 10:09 ` 2.6.0-test3-mm3 Flameeyes
2003-08-19 10:23 ` 2.6.0-test3-mm3 Andrew Morton
2003-08-19 10:34 ` 2.6.0-test3-mm3 Flameeyes
2003-08-19 10:51 ` 2.6.0-test3-mm3 Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-08-19 14:30 ` 2.6.0-test3-mm3 Sam Ravnborg
2003-08-19 13:25 ` 2.6.0-test3-mm3 Luiz Capitulino
2003-08-19 18:32 ` 2.6.0-test3-mm3 Mike Fedyk
2003-08-19 21:10 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-08-20 3:15 ` 2.6.0-test3-mm3 Jonathan Brown
2003-08-20 3:23 ` 2.6.0-test3-mm3 Andrew Morton
2003-08-21 10:31 ` 2.6.0-test3-mm3 Christian Axelsson
2003-08-20 7:47 ` 2.6.0-test3-mm3 William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-20 9:08 ` 2.6.0-test3-mm3 Gabor MICSKO
2003-08-20 10:54 ` 2.6.0-test3-mm3 Gabor MICSKO
2003-08-20 20:53 ` 2.6.0-test3-mm3 Cliff White
2003-08-22 22:24 ` 2.6.0-test3-mm3 Cliff White
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