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

From: Jamie Lokier
Date: Thu Sep 11 2003 - 14:00:12 EST


Andi Kleen wrote:
> There are a lot of conditional branches in the signal path. If you
> don't believe me I can send you simics full instruction traces of it.

Oh, I know. The signal machinery is disturbingly branch-heavy.

-- Jamie
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