From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:10:00 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test3-mm3 Message-Id: <20030819141000.7df20405.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20030819183249.GD19465@matchmail.com> References: <20030819013834.1fa487dc.akpm@osdl.org> <20030819183249.GD19465@matchmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Mike Fedyk Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Mike Fedyk 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. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org