Re: prefetch on ppc64

[Paul Mackerras]

Antonio Vargas writes:

> Don't know exactly about power5, but G5 processor is described on IBM
> docs as doing automatic whole-page prefetch read-ahead when detecting
> linear accesses.

Sure, but linked lists would rarely be laid out linearly in memory.

Paul.
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