Re: [PATCH] 2.6 workaround for Athlon/Opteron prefetch errata

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Sep 11 2003 - 09:02:03 EST


On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 06:54:53 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> This patch is fragile and looks pointless.

Why do you think it is fragile? I don't see anything fragile in it.

>
> What's wrong with the current status quo that just says "Athlon prefetch
> is broken"?

It doesn't fix user space for once.

-Andi
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