Posted May 25, 2011 17:57 UTC (Wed) by branden (subscriber, #7029)
Parent article: The problem with prefetch
> One immediate outcome from this work is that, for 2.6.40 (or whatever it ends up being called), the prefetch() calls have been removed from linked list, hlist, and sk_buff list traversal operations - just like Andi Kleen tried to do in September.
"Sometimes, getting your patch in is just a matter of waiting for somebody else to reimplement it." -- Jonathan Corbet, https://lwn.net/Articles/51615/