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Prefetching considered harmful

Prefetching considered harmful

Posted Sep 9, 2010 17:06 UTC (Thu) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648)
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You don't suppose that Andi could make a kernel config option whether the prefetch is included so that I could do my own comparison? Thanks!

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Prefetching considered harmful

Posted Sep 9, 2010 17:35 UTC (Thu) by dtlin (✭ supporter ✭, #36537) [Link]

That's close to what he did first, see
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/8/77

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